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| Degenerate |
on Tue 12 Jan 10, 1:50 PM to Degenerate's blog.
It is perfectly normal for people to wish to be ourselves. Just to know who we are and that we are ok.
It's is ok to want to be ourselves. Just to 'be' in the world free of guilt or stigma.
Doesn't everyone want that?
It is not selfish to want to exist authentically as part of a welcoming and tolerant society where all people are free from abuse or rejection.. to want it so much that you begin to do it anyway and wait for the world to catch up. This is how change happens.
It is not selfish to be witnessed declaring "I am me, and I will join in" - whatever the naysayers tell you - for it echoes in the minds of so many others.
It is here we find the terrifying truth of the reason for much of human kind's navel gazing.. the constant battle between doing both as social pressure dictates and being our authentic selves. Who dares go one step further - to choose to become our best self? I think it is true, as various activists are quoted as saying, that some people are afraid of their power, not their weakness. Afraid of our power too, sometimes.
Every time we have to stick up for ourselves by asserting our true colours we remind others that they are ok too, whatever society dictates, whatever parts of themselves they hide in dark places. A few will hate us for living in the light, for they are so afraid of their own reflection that they cannot bear to witness ours.. others are waiting for the day they can join us.
Come and sit by me in the light, there is nothing to fear except those who build darkness. You can not be swallowed by someone else's darkness, because for every person who closes their mind to you, you will find another nourished, inspired by your blossoming glow, someone who chooses you.. just for being you.. especially because you are beautifully you.
(For my dear, sweet, unselfish friend Jane..)
PS ... imagine if everyone just started being themselves tomorrow - what a more colourful world we'd live in, free from self repression!
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edited and re-edited for improvements 
Edited Tue 12 Jan 10, 8:55 PM by Degenerate
| 12 Jan 10, 1:50 PM FairyGirl UK(YO), 2 yrs   |
x "Nothing saves anyone's life, Sir. It just postpones their death." - Posner , The History Boys. | |
| 12 Jan 10, 1:52 PM Degenerate UK(M), 4 yrs   |
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| 12 Jan 10, 3:41 PM jules9 UK(CH), 2 yrs   |
Beautiful, thought provoking, and incredibly true... XxX | |
| 12 Jan 10, 4:49 PM Iphis_me UK(E), 4 yrs  |
A beautiful post. "The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates | |
| 12 Jan 10, 5:19 PM stormywaters PT, 4 yrs |
Absolutely completely how I see it too. Oh so good to find somebody else writing like that. Best thing that has happened today, this week, ever in the entire history of the universe. Actually it is what the entire history of the universe is about. Woo, etc.
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| 12 Jan 10, 7:17 PM Grownup_Frankie UK, 3 yrs |
"Our Deepest Fear" ~ by Marianne Williamson "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness That most frightens us. We ask ourselves Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?"
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| 12 Jan 10, 8:56 PM Degenerate UK(M), 4 yrs |
Thanks for your kind comments
Love that poem brother, it's an excellent one
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| 12 Jan 10, 9:55 PM GentleButch UK(M), 4 yrs |
I want to live in the light... am sharing a little bit of yours already xOxD | |
| 12 Jan 10, 11:55 PM Miss_Swoons UK(M), 4 yrs |
Beautiful post that brightened a slush-covered Tuesday.x 'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative' | |
| 13 Jan 10, 12:10 PM stormywaters PT, 4 yrs |
Humph (do like humphs, no post is properly dressed without a humph) how come you have a totally apt poem ready and waiting for every post? Actually I was trying to say much the same thing, with about a thosand times as many words, here: http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/232967/0
My object all sublime... Edited 13 Jan 10, 1:30 PM by stormywaters |
