I recently read a book where the characters formed a pact to support one another through good and difficult times. Some of the rules for this pact were that each person had to discover who they were deep inside and love the person they discovered there. The whole idea was based on a "fairy tale" concept and their motto was, "True love is born of experience, not fairy dust". The whole concept was cute, but perhaps somewhat over the top; but then again... it was just a story. Finding yourself is an enlightening experience, a journey which I took "once upon a time". It is not a journey for the weak at heart, let me tell you that up front. There is definitely wallowing involved!
Thinking of myself as a chameleon through most of this era, I wondered if the real Lonnie D. would ever stand up! I have been someone's daughter, someone's sister, someone's wife, someone's mother, and someone's grandmother. So... at the heart of finding myself I then wanted to re-invent myself. In so doing, I chose four words to describe the person I wanted to be: loving, honest, understanding and dependable. I then began this journey which is constantly a work in progress, sometimes falling and stumbling along the way. Nonetheless, I feel that I have made progress and it has been worth it. Mahatma Gandhi once said, "the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others".
Have you found the real you?
Monday, January 23, 2012
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