Lyrical Inspiration

you can go through life with the greatest intentions
but you do what you do - what you just gotta do
your blue might be gray
your less might be more
your window to the world
might be your own front door
your shiniest day might come in the middle of the night
that's just about right

And thus the power of music once again engages reflection:

Why is it we feel the need to be like "everyone else?" Remember the comic strip frame of the penguin standing in a group of identical-looking penguins singing, "I just gotta be me"? I think we all feel that pull to just be ourselves and yet we get sucked back into bending, stretching and sometimes even breaking to conform to the norm.

This is not acceptable.

In a quote I've posted before, Marianne Williamson said, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

I post this quote again because we all need to read it. We need to hear it. We need to feel it. We need to know that there is NOTHING wrong with us. Not a damned thing. We are perfect in our imperfections, and downright brilliant when we allow ourselves to think beyond the self-perceived flaws and just ... be ... ourselves.

Regardless of what you believe ... in God, an unnamed higher power, the energy of Mother Earth or nothing at all, you must believe in yourself.

That thing that scares the ever-living crap out of you? That thing that creates an image you only acknowledge when you're all alone? The one in your mind's eye of you doing something really, really well? Believe it. It's not your ego. It's you. It's your own soul telling you that you are indeed capable.

Think it over. And believe.