What's Wrong With Being YOU?

Everybody Else is Taken...

An Observation
As I look through substack, I'm seeing so much... well, competition with others?

It's like...

'oh I've not done my post this Monday'

or...noticing what others have done you didn't

or...

'something is giving me anxiety on here?'

or...

'I've been on here for months and I've not got many subscribers?'

But it's not just with others is it? Cos deep down, it's not feeling confident enough to be free of restraints?

And who is it holding you back?

It's probably you!

There's Many Good Things About Aging, But This One Tops Most Of Them!
I seem to have got to a point in my life where I please myself, if others have a problem with me, I figure it's their stuff? Cos I am a caring, kind person who considers others too? 

Sometimes I consider others too much, but I'm on track to fulfill my needs, my creativity, who I am? and that is like a fire or desire burning in my soul for me?

It's like, I cannot breathe without it, it's every atom of my being, that, even in the depths, I'd have to create, its pulls me out, as it always has, it moves through whatever, cos it's a form of ongoing replenishment, a washing of emotions, ideas, and seeing afresh.

It's taken my hand so many times and turned things around, that it seems most of the time we're looking at everything the wrong way round, it's all perspective isn't it?

Seeing From Your Perspective
I know someone who has absolutely no perspective, they'll say,

'Quick look at that bird' pointing out of a window...

I'll say 'I can't see it from here I'd have to look around a corner?'

'Oh can't you?' they'll say?

Its from where you're standing, what you deduce, what you decide, as to what conclusion you come up with? And yes you may have to move a little to see it

But, if we know even how complicated we are, how can we decide what others mean?  We read so much even into one sentence.

Meanings of words can mean something else for others, just cos of dialect, where/how they were bought up, culture, location, experiences, and so on?

Many people don't even think they have a choice to decide what they want, even if it's out of reach, you can still take one step in front of the other, if it means that much to you

And that may surprise you, if you want to be a writer for instance, write!  But don't beat yourself up when you don't have the urge to, or you read a masterpiece and feel insignificant...be inspired, use it to be 'more you' you are unique!

I still laugh when I think of a 'friend' who 'fiercely accused' me of being 'full of myself'
(she was always falling out with 'friends'?)

Well who else am I gonna be, everyone else is taken lol

Don't ever be afraid to be wholeheartedly YOU!