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Today's
quotation:
Let the world know you as you are, not as you
think
you should be, because sooner or later, if you are
posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
Fanny Brice
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Today's
Meditation:
Have
you ever taken a job at which your employers expect you to
be smiling all the time? How does it feel to have to
smile even when you're feeling awful? Personally, I
could never take such a job because the permasmile simply
isn't me-- I smile and laugh a lot, but there isn't a smile
plastered on my face all the time. And I would feel
completely insincere and dishonest if I put a smile on my
face just because my employers said I had to be smiling.
We
often do things based on what we think others think we
should be, and that never can be right. If I wear
certain clothes only because others think I should, then
I'm not being authentic. True, my employer may
require me to wear a uniform, but then it's easy for me to
make the distinction between a work requirement and my
authentic self.
Being
my authentic self at all times allows me to avoid the trap
of forgetting who I am, of spending so much time acting
like someone else that I begin to think I am that someone
else. We see this happen in fields like politics all
the time-- people begin to pose in order to rise in the
ranks, and eventually they forget that it was a pose that
got them where they were-- and they begin to live their
whole lives in the ways that used to be a pose to help
them to get where they are.
You
are kind and compassionate, and you love beauty and
life. Those aren't qualities that will help you
climb the corporate ladder, though, so you don't act that
way at work. Sooner or later, the way you act at
work supersedes your kindness and compassion, and you
forget your true self. And that, my friend, is a
great tragedy, for we all miss the authentic you.
And we're not as fond of the poser who has taken over your
life.
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