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Storm Ripple Calm’ Canvas Print by Paulina Kazarinov |
That’s what you are...
You feel before you ever get to understand
And it takes so long to get to understand
If ever
That’s what you are
No one and everyone
That’s what you are
What the others like about you
And especially what they dislike
That’s what you are
So work more on being
What you already are.
11 comments:
I'll really try hard.
"I YAM WHAT I YAM"
Uttered by POPEYE the Sailor Man in September 1933. I was age 4 months. But, in a way, it is true for me today.
I had written much more, but you do not need a blog from me today! This is a good and thoughtful post...but ESPECIALLY I like the image of three Peeps in ONE.
So one cannot be much more than "What others like and dislike" for that is the sum of each of us?
wow.. what a beautiful post.. A message to look at ourselves for who we really are.. not just from the eyes of others
dulce - these words are so key in my own experiencing as i have moved from the world mediated by my sense of the experiencing of me by others, to my own knowing of what is right and what is good. i believe that we know what is good for us but we give up that understanding to others almost as a test to see if we are right. the suffering comes from discovering that we hurt ourselves in the process of assuring ourselves of our own rightness. steven
Perspective. That's what you are...
So true to me. I am what I see from whatever perspective I choose. The self I see through the eyes of others and that I take on for my self mirrors what I feel to be true about myself.
But what is true can only be seen through the eyes of my creator and when my sight is aligned with that I will know.
Boogolu,
Thanks for the comment. When you have really tried, hard, you could tell me how it worked?
:)
Steve E.,
Maybe our children don't know who Popeye is or was, but of course- at my age- I know!I wish that only with a tin of those spinach I could change the self...lol
In answer to your question,I believe we CAN be much more than that, but of course. And it's true IMO that we are a sum of lots of things, beginning with the history of our lives to what we think everyday, and one day at a time; though that is unavoidable influenced by what's been going on around us, and from and to the people we live with...
SY,
You are right... we shouldn't look at ourselves from the eyes of others. But no doubt they have a perspective we do not have from within- and that is something to be taken into consideration, for what we show to the world is also us- whether we like it or not.
Steven,
You are also right! We cannot let others test to see if we are right... But we, as humans who interact in so many ways with others, cannot avoid being influenced by what they tell us and thus, eventually, that can bring consequences of many types- some really beautiful, others not so. Anyway, we ourselves are counsellors to others and have our own perspectives of others, and sometimes when trying to help or give advice we might change the self of the other, as far as that centre we/they try to keep untouchable is concerned...
Andrew,
You got it too. We are a sum of so many factors, first we are what and who we see in the mirror- but how much we see which is not true and how much is there that we don't get to see- maybe by the eyes of others?
God is always there to align- for sure. If only I gave him more credit!
This poem is so apt in expressing that we can only be what we are. Our hopes, our outreach, our ways of commmunicating within our species, are unique. As we understand and accept our own self, so we can accept others as they are.
You work not only speaks out from you, bu awakens some small thing within each of us, which enables us, too, to speak out, or to learn about the self within.
yes, yes .. "to thine ownself be true"
That's right, take it or leave it, I'm me, good or bad, but the bad is, oh so good!!
I've always been scared to be just me...no one's expectations...or assumptions of what or how I "should' be. I'm learning...somedays I'm more of me than I'm not...your poem...simple yet speaks so much....
Beautiful insight to the inner reflections and our outer projections of who we are and who we desire to be,,, and rare are those folks who are balanced.
joanny
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