Seeing the Truth in
Yourself
The way we
see the world is the way we see ourselves. That’s the plain and simple truth but rather
hard to take.
Still, deep
inside, we know that it’s correct, that to our own self we must be true.
Yesterday, I
was having a not so "pretty" day. This does not happen often, in fact, I look almost
the same all of the time and I almost always feel beautiful. Somehow yesterday,
I felt that I was less than that.
Everything seemed
to be off, wrong and downright against me. I immediately knew the source of
this conspiracy "against me"; it was me.
I shifted my
thinking back into beautiful mode and the world went right. (Okay, I
had the help of my sister and a very handsome friend who made me laugh at my
own ridiculousness but we all need somebody to lean on.)
When we hide
the truth of who we really are and how we truly feel, that truth creeps up in
our attitude toward the world.If you want to make the world a better place, start with you.
As you begin
to feel better about yourself, you will feel better about the world you live
in.
I know you
have work to do, so I will let you get to it; but the real work is the work we
all have to do on ourselves.
“To thine
own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then
be false to any man.”~~ Shakespeare's Polonius was speaking to his son Laertes,
but was also speaking to himself.
What we tell
our children, is also what God is telling us.
“Don’t worry
about what Bookie is doing, worry about yourself.”~~Me to my son and God to me.
Be you, be well, be
true to you.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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