Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth. --Francoise Giroud
Sometimes we think we need to try and be something we're not. Maybe we feel pressure from friends to behave or dress like someone else.
All we need to do is remember when we were younger and dressed in our parents' clothes and shoes. We pretended to be grownups, and it was fun for a while. Then the huge shoes on our feet grew clumsy and uncomfortable and the mountain of rolled-up sleeves kept falling down and getting in the way. Soon we grew tired of the game and stopped pretending.
Today when we start feeling the pressure to be someone else, let's remember how hard it is to play a role that doesn't fit us.
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
I can really relate to this.... So much of the time I use to think I was too much "me" and would love to "be" someone else. When I was much younger I would even get the teen/Glamour women's magazines and open a page to one of the models in it. I would carefully apply my makeup and do my hair trying to "look" like the image I saw. It shouldn't have been a big surprise to me that I never looked like that other person because I wasn't her. I was "stuck" with myself and that used to make me very po'd and very sad.
Now since I have been sober and in AA for these several months, I am learning to accept and even like me and what God gave me instead of "wishing" I was someone else and comparing myself to others. I have realized that what is on the inside is so much more important than what is on the outside and I am working on changing that about myself now. (And the funny thing is that I would have not gone anywhere when I was having a bad hair day, and I think to myself now, "my hair is not important, get to a meeting!" AMAZING! Great post!
Thanks for your response BTY, ... I too, have come to realize that we are all strangely unique in our own way ... and that my appearance is of little concern to others ... you're right, it's what's on the inside that counts ... Lord, help me become the person You wish me to be, not what I think others expect of me ... Amen ...
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
Yep...it sure makes life soooo much easier, too, right Pappy? I have been a people pleaser as long as I can remember. Now I am learning how to be a God pleaser.
