How Amazing Are You?

Society is fantastic at telling us what "normal" is. But what happens when you don't exactly fit that mould?

Do you:

1. Change who you are to fit?

OR

2. Continue to be you?

My opinion, screw "normal" and just be YOU! I spent a lot of years trying to fit into the mould and as I look back I see a lot of wasted years - I don't fit the perception of "normal" - but I fit ME perfectly!

So why should I continue to be something I am not? How is that ever going to make me happy? How can I ever see how amazing I am if I am always looking at how different I am and seeing that as wrong - seeing it as something that needs to be changed?

The way we view ourselves dictates the way we view others. If we are critical of ourselves, we will be critical of others. If we don't love ourselves, how are we going to recognise and fully love someone else? If you don't respect who you are, how can you make respectable choices? If you spend all your time trying to be something you are not, how can you use your time to fully live the life that will make you happy? And isn't that what life is about - finding what makes us happy and living a life that leaves us fulfilled?

And when you look at the people that really inspire you, that you look up to, that have made their mark in this world - how many of them are "normal" and how many of them are AMAZING! We remember them becuase they dared to believe in who they are, they dreamed big and they followed those dreams regardless of what others thought or said!

So why are the very things that make me different wrong - why can't they be the things that make me AMAZING?

Why can't your differences be the very things that make you AMAZING? Afterall, they make you YOU!

So why not recognise all the good you do - how wonderful you are! Celebrate what makes you different and remember that who is are is enough - YOU ARE AMAZING!

Still don't believe me?

I believe someone is a good person if they have good intentions, accept people for who they are, keep an open mind, are able to laugh and make me laugh, listen when I need an ear, are genuinely compassionate, make selfless decisions for the people they love, forgive other's mistakes, appreciate the good in the world and what makes others amazing, want and help people reach their potential and they try each day to do the right thing by everyone they encounter.

Doesn't that person sound like someone you would like to know? Doesn't that person sound AMAZING! I bet that if each and every one of you took a good look in the mirror, they would recognise that person within themselves. And each and every one of you can take it further than that - there are things you feel, see or can do that others can't. That doesn't make you weird, that makes you special - that makes you YOU!

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” ~Buddha

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