The Story Of Us All
From the time we are born we are encouraged and told to be something, become someone. Parents, teachers, ministers and even our friends seek to influence our decision and life choices. There suggestions though well-meaning often come laced with societies fears behind them.
We are encouraged to join in and be like everyone else. The idea of trusting yourself or what you feel is stomped under a pile of fear and male testosterone. Tremendous pressure comes at us if we seek to go it alone and find our way. Persecution and emotional punishment often follow.
Trusting ourselves and making choices that feel right to us is never spoken. Over time we become hardened by the protective coating society has placed on us. Deep within we know that something is missing. On top of all our outer success a hollow emptiness rests within us. Something authentic has been lost within us, something that was real, genuine and true.
Eventually life will bring us to a point of crisis or decision, if we are fortunate. If not, then we suffer with a false image created by others and embraced by us. This dark night of our soul comes at a point where we feel the need to be reborn and take off the false image we have lived with and embraced. It has become useless to us and seems to be strangling the life out of us.
We realize that we have lost touch with an essential aspect of ourselves, something that is real and true. Something that is deep and lasting within us. No longer can we pretend to be something else. We must do that which we feel is right to us and in us. We must find the missing part which can make us whole.
Robert