Greatness simmers in my blood and then goes away. There are moments of clarity when I see things clearly and then everything becomes out of focus, messy. There are flashes of profound awareness and then vague cluelessness returns. An uncontrolable drive, a passion flickers and then dissapears.
Maybe human beings are not born great or common, smart or stupid, good or bad. We each have all those traits, all those threads, what we become depends on the thread we follow. It doesn’t make a difference whether we choose to follow it or are forced to follow it but it’s the thread or the combination of threads we end up following for whatever reason, that makes us who we become.
They say you can be whoever you want to be. As inspiring as it is it doesn’t always fit the bill. I would like to amend that a little bit. You can choose who you want to be and that’s your identity, “who you want to be”. This does not mean that just by thinking you want to be a certain kind of person you define your identity, you define your identity when you work towards it, when you back who you want to be with your actions. Your identity is not the point of your journey where you stand right now, your identity is the path you have taken, your entire journey, and you can start a new journey, take a new turn whenever you want.
You can not control the lucky breaks, the setbacks, the roadblock and the do-overs you get and so you can not control where you will be in your journey at a given point of time but you get to pick the journey, that’s how you get to choose who you are.
So yes, you can be whoever you want to be.
You are what you want to be.
Love,
N
Daily Prompt – Messy
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March 3, 2018 at 6:39 pm
Perceptive.
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March 5, 2018 at 4:39 pm
Thank you! 🙂
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March 6, 2018 at 3:38 am
Welcome 🙂
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March 3, 2018 at 6:46 pm
I like the message: “… you can be whoever you want to be.
You are what you want to be.”
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March 5, 2018 at 4:39 pm
Thank you! I am glad you do. 🙂
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March 3, 2018 at 9:38 pm
I couldn’t agree more: there are many things in life that we can’t control, which is something we should embrace in the pursuit of the person who we want to become. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
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March 5, 2018 at 4:38 pm
Thank you for your coment, It’s so nice to know there are people who think like you. 🙂
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March 4, 2018 at 12:38 am
There is wisdom here. And it’s not messy at all but clear and well articulated.
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March 5, 2018 at 4:36 pm
Thank you so much Amme! 🙂
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March 4, 2018 at 3:40 am
Brilliant words so well written and of course u r what u make of yourself. Great post
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March 5, 2018 at 4:36 pm
Thank you so much! 🙂
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March 5, 2018 at 5:07 pm
Welcome
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March 4, 2018 at 12:54 pm
This is truth. Xx
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March 5, 2018 at 4:35 pm
Thank You! 🙂
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March 6, 2018 at 2:01 am
True portrayal of life journey. It is moving through the blurry moments and following the clear ones …as you say it is indeed continual work towards what we want to be.
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March 6, 2018 at 9:38 pm
Thank you Praglbha, It’s like you always understand my mind exactly how I want it to be understood. That’s some conection I would say. 🙂
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March 7, 2018 at 1:17 am
You are very welcome. I am always very happy and grateful to know that I have understood as closely 🙂 Yes we are connected as travelers of similar journey, maybe different stories.
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March 7, 2018 at 6:02 am
🙂
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March 12, 2018 at 12:51 am
This was a lovely wee read. As a fan of The Iron Giant, I loved the theme. Thanks for the bedtime read.
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March 13, 2018 at 7:44 pm
I am so glad you enjoyed it. I have never seen iron glad but now I am going to have to watch it. Maybe tomorrow. 🙂
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March 25, 2018 at 9:27 pm
you would like iron giant!!!!
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March 29, 2018 at 6:20 pm
I am going to watch it tonight. 🙂
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March 30, 2018 at 7:41 pm
i think i remember it making me cry… let me know how you like it. awesome movie. so many levels of understanding and wisdom in it.
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April 4, 2018 at 7:37 pm
It is a beautiful beautiful movie.. I am thinking of doing a post on it soon. Thank you so much for recommending it!! ❤
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April 5, 2018 at 1:41 am
welcome, isn’t it awesome? so old but it is timeless. and you think it will be a child’s movie but it’s NOT.
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April 5, 2018 at 5:30 am
So softly in a playful manner it delivers one of the most important life lessons.
It was so cute and so amazing at the same time when the Gaint said “super Man” the collision. I loved it!
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March 25, 2018 at 9:25 pm
From a daily prompt? This is awesome.
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March 29, 2018 at 6:20 pm
yeah…Thank you!! 🙂
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March 28, 2018 at 1:17 am
Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet and commented:
Come read the great post by our friend N – “You Are Who You Want To Be”. Be sure to check out her Archive!
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March 29, 2018 at 6:19 pm
Thank you so much, Your support is so very motivating.
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March 29, 2018 at 9:35 pm
You are very welcome! I love your writing and happy to support you. And thanks for your support of my words too.!
xoxo
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March 30, 2018 at 7:28 am
🙂
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March 28, 2018 at 3:35 am
Reblogged this on Sacred Touches.
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March 29, 2018 at 6:18 pm
Thank you for sharing. 🙂
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March 30, 2018 at 6:16 am
My pleasure😊❤️
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April 3, 2018 at 1:52 am
++++
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March 29, 2018 at 3:16 am
It’s good to know we can start a new journey, take a little detour, a slightly different path, or a new direction altogether. This makes for exciting possibilities.
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March 29, 2018 at 6:17 pm
Thanks Joanna, That was exactly the intent of writing that post. Your feedback has reminded me something I was starting to foget. 🙂
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March 29, 2018 at 10:56 pm
🙂
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July 11, 2019 at 6:17 pm
Profound and thought provoking. I loved it!
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July 18, 2019 at 7:27 pm
Thank you, I am glad. 🙂
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