{signposts from the universe}

sometimes when you are ready, there is no avoiding it.
the universe doesn't give you an opportunity to forget,
to ignore the path you know you should start travelling down.

just these last couple of days i was hit with this, this and then this.
every one of these posts screamed out at me:
"hello! yes, hello! recognise this? hear this? get it?"

"this is more about being the person i want to be, and instead of standing up and trying to explain who i am or convince people of who i am, i let everyone believe what they want to believe."

"let everyone believe what they want to believe"
that's it. that is the key.

it doesn't matter.
you can't change it, so stop worrying about it.

honestly, so much of my time is spent worrying about how other people will react.
what will they think? say? feel?
i can't even begin to imagine how much of me is lost in that process!
how many original ideas have i given up over the years because i was concerned about how someone else might interpret it?
how much of what is unique about me, has been discarded because i feared how someone else might react?
how much individuality have i sacraficed because i wanted someone to like me?

sometimes, on the road to discovering who you are,
you lose yourself.
be it through admiration and imitation
or adulation and intimidation,
either way it's a dead-end.
and often one that's taken you further away from where you were aiming for.

the time has come to reclaim myself.
because people will believe what they want to believe -
so why continue to adapt or worry about who i am for others?

and so there is a fork in the road,
and i know which path i must take.

i need to step inside my own skin and feel comfortable.
to walk in my own shoes and have faith that,
in being true to myself,
i will naturally attract what is right for me.

because in this search for my own voice,
that is the only way to find it.

where is your journey leading you?