You’re all you’ve got. ~ Janis Joplin
I wonder what/why/who happened to make that come out of her mouth?
Or was it just a whack of stuff that came crashing down, and she snapped herself into, her self.
That’s what recently happened to me. Stuff crashing down, and I realized, hey, I can either continue to be a robotic version of what people would rather I be or, I can snap into my self.
So…snap!
I can’t imagine spending the remainder of my life, which, in reality, is a helluva lot less years than I’ve already put in, behaving like and doing what others want.
Why did it take so long? I think because, as most humans, we are programmed from childhood to ‘not upset the apple cart’…’put others before ourselves’. I call bullshit on that. If I cannot be me, the real me, then I am not existing for myself, I exist for others.
I’m so incredibly sick and tired, physically sick and tired, of being not me.
If I lose some people along the last part of my journey, it’s not my problem, it’s theirs.
All I can do is be me.
I wonder what/why/who happened to make that come out of her mouth?
Or was it just a whack of stuff that came crashing down, and she snapped herself into, her self.
That’s what recently happened to me. Stuff crashing down, and I realized, hey, I can either continue to be a robotic version of what people would rather I be or, I can snap into my self.
So…snap!
I can’t imagine spending the remainder of my life, which, in reality, is a helluva lot less years than I’ve already put in, behaving like and doing what others want.
Why did it take so long? I think because, as most humans, we are programmed from childhood to ‘not upset the apple cart’…’put others before ourselves’. I call bullshit on that. If I cannot be me, the real me, then I am not existing for myself, I exist for others.
I’m so incredibly sick and tired, physically sick and tired, of being not me.
If I lose some people along the last part of my journey, it’s not my problem, it’s theirs.
All I can do is be me.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment