"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." ~e.e. cummings
Bravery, I feel, is the act of showing the world who you are. It is not so much that you have to be different; it is, however, that you must be honest. Or rather, I must be honest. I find myself lost in opinions, thinking that somehow those opinions are who I need to be. What kind of thinking is that? Since it has taken so much time to reach a point where I'm glad to be me, why should I let opinions or suggestions destroy that? I shouldn't.
Here's my proposal...I'm still a work-in-progress. I may never be finished. At least, not in this life. But as that work-in-progress, I'm going to continue to choose who I want to be. Also, I'm going to make my opinions and suggestions genuine and gentle. But most of all, I'm going to be honest. And if that puts me in the range of different...happy to be here.
