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Today's
Meditation:
There
are a lot of people who spend a lot of time worrying about
what other people are doing with their lives. When I
say or do something that comes from my heart and someone
criticizes me for my thoughts or actions, I have to remind
myself that as long as I wasn't hurting anyone else, there
was nothing wrong with what I said or did. The
people who concern themselves with what I do or say
because they want to exert some sort of control over me
for some reason really don't matter-- or at least, their
reactions to my actions must not be important to me.
I
am who I am, and I must be true to that. If someone
criticizes me or my actions in an effort to get me to act
some other way, then I should be suspicious of their
motives: are they trying to get me to change because
they have my best interests in mind? And do they
truly know what my best interests are?
The
more of us who say what we feel and who be who we are, the
more diverse and unique this world will be. The more
of us who adopt the "safe" and the
"ordinary" things to say and ways to be, the
less truly unique input into the world we'll be able to
give.
We
can contribute to the diversity and uniqueness in this
world, or we can contribute to the uniformity and
conformity. When I think of the image I would like
to present to a young person in order to help that person
to grow into a truly unique individual, I know that I need
to be truly me, truly myself. Otherwise, I'm simply
teaching them to conform, and that really leads nowhere
new or special.
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