“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
ANYONE
can start from now and make a brand new ending”
Carl Bard.
I may have shared this quote before, maybe not. In any case this one is one of my all time favorites mostly because it reminds me that its not about trying to undo what has already happened its about breaking the chain and starting new. I tend to look back A LOT and second guess myself on things that at this point I can do nothing about and really its just frustrating. One of the reason's why I wanted to make some kind of mission statement/manifesto for myself was to bring all of what I wanted to do and be all together in one place to see if they actually worked with each other. I'm not going to lie, it took me a long time to get these together and I'm not even sure its done. Some of these I have been working on since June/July when I really took a look at my life and others are new.
The first part of this all started with a Post-It note stuck on a bathroom mirror that I happened upon randomly...I have no idea why it was there or who put it there but it stuck with me. All that was written on it was 'be you, everyone else is spoken for'. I thought it was a hoot so I whipped out my trusty camera phone and took a picture; one because I liked the little saying and two because I couldn't believe people were leaving sticky notes in bathrooms! I figured when I told my friends I would need evidence ;) They weren't as amused as me :( Fast forward several months and I flip to July in my Mollie Makes 2012 calendar and what do I see but some beautiful photos and another post-it!! Different wording but essentially the same quote; ‘be yourself, everyone else is already taken’.
Its fate, it must be!
So this year one of my goals is to just be me, stop comparing myself, stop molding myself, stop trying to be something I’m not. I can only ever be me so I am going to try to really be honest about who I am and what it means to be me. After all life is about creating yourself, not impersonating someone else!
What do you all have on tap for 2013?
Thanks for swinging through!
~Leah
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