Made perfect sense.

To love as it was intended: Arms wide open, trust.. Complete abandon.. Selfless… In that Love, as you said all of who you are {Is}... communication, temperament, actions, reactions… What type of child were you racer…?.... I agree completly with you.. I have a quote for you.. I hope it makes sense and you like it..

The world is inundated with people who see what could be but live in what is, because they are unable to let go of what was… Serenity 5-20-5

To me the most precious gift a child has or gives is that ability to believe.. You hurt their heart and 5 min later they are there telling you how much they love you… Fiddlesticks.. now i am not making sense… Sigh…..... save yourself delete this…

leather only becomes what it will be by having the heck beat out of it… soft, AND strong…

I don’t know who said it, but if we chase a butterfly it will fly away… if we sit quietly, it just might sit on our knee and visit for a while…

I don’t think we can actively find out who we are if we go after it directly… but if we go after our own vision, and seek challenges, charitable and personal, we may eventually see, in the corner of our eyes, a reflection of who we really are… because who we are isn’t in our heads… it’s in our interactions with the world…

heat transfer was a class i took in engineering school… loved it. the only thing that really mattered is “heat transfer”... the movement of heat from place to place… liken ourselves as heat resevoirs…

if we are simply a resevoir of goodness, optimism, courage, will, intellect, compassion, curiosity, care… and we don’t “transfer” it… then our personal “heat” it is wasted heat…

Someone or some thing may be dying of emotional hypothermia right next to us and never know it… in transfering your heat to the world, you find out how much heat you have to share, and the type of heat…

conductive… by direct touch…
convectiive… by movement…(doing, saying, giving…)
radiative… from a distance… (prayer, notes,...)

(like me trying to transfer it to you from a distance…)

okay, bad metaphor… but if you focus on finding you, you will only look at you… turn your vision to the world, forget about you as a primary goal, and seek to transfer your heat to the world…

in the end, you will know who you are by the people and creatures you’ve warmed along the way… and the specific way they feel warmed by your unique form of heat…

“Thermal Insulation”... have specific characteristics… low weight, light, vacuum, restricts air flow…

People who don’t give their heat can also be drawn in parallel to these adjectives…

When we find our own unique barriers (beliefs, negativity, fear, biases..) to share ourselves, our “heat”, with the world… then we can become more of who we are…

Does that sound like complete B.S. or what? I just pulled it out of… thin air… so it may just very well be of zero use to you…

I’ll take a chance it won’t be a waste of your time.

Take Care!

LM

Yes, we know where we are going as children, and then, people come in and try to save us from ourselves sometimes. They know not what they do. If you go back to your innocence and just be who you were then, you can be who you are now.

I think I am finally me again. Whew!

...does THAT make sense?

...you could go to the BHV and buy some art supplies and see what happens after…maybe, just don’t think about it, just let it come out…and use that as a first step to letting go of some other things? Just letting yourself be in synchronization with…well…yourself…

Just an idea…

Thought of you…

“Everyone is a genius at being themselves.”
- Theolonius Monk

You are you, and I am quite fond of the you you are.

Don’t go changin’

This “And who I was especially as a child. I believe that we were naturally ourselves when we were children.” really struck me. Not only for myself as I live this life I’ve gotten and am trying to find the right balance of everything, but also with how I interact with my kids. I don’t want to be one of those people who goes and tries to change my kids from who they really are.

Thanks for something to think about. :)

Don’t forget to embrace yourself for who you are today. Becoming who you are is wonderful. As is, accepting who you were, are, and who you are going to be. I guess what I am saying is, respect the place you are in the journey…

But then I like who you are now.

_{I think you are just wonderful.}

What you wrote makes perfect sense. I think for me it took some amazing incident (most people would tell you that it was something horrible that happened to me.. but I view it as my awakening).

After some tragedy in my life I became who I am. I believe it takes your focus and it all comes down to your passion on what you want to do with your life. I asked myself daily for years: Who do you want to become? What do you want to become? Greg.. How will you be when you reach that moment?

When you focus on your outcome.. you will get it. As I have learned.. you will get anything you focus on.. so be careful.

Great post!

~lg!

YOu are who you are and you are loved.

Some people spend their entire lives searching for half of what you have.

basically the problem is you have accept what you are, who you are, what you have, what you will have. That’s not compromise, that’s learning to love you. Sometimes it may be understanding that other people accept you, you are just fine the way you are. I said that 2 years ago and I stand by it now.