Sunday, July 28, 2019

Striving to fit in?


Childhood is the true phase of your life where you learn to be original, with no sense of inhibition, shame or fear. You learn to articulate things as you see without fabricating it or coloring it to make it look good. But slowly it is the adults who taught you to limit your powers, shackle your genius and betray the truths of your heart. Very soon you find yourself boxed in and designed to operate at a very superficial level.

The lamp of your creativity, your positivity and your intimacy with your greatness grew dim as you began to worry about fitting in, having more than others and being popular. Well, here’s what I say: participate not in the world of numbed-out grownups, with its scarcity, apathy and limitation. Your surroundings really do shape your perceptions, your inspirations and your implementations. The right values and ethics that you hold on to, will give you the freedom to choose things that are worth and edifying.

The Bible exhorts us by these words, “Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable -if there are any moral excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy-dwell on these things". This is not a religious emphasis, but a divine way to healthy living which has a capacity to impact our personal life as well as the society we live in.

Why do people continuously strive to fit in to find their significance? God has blessed each one of us with unique gifts and potential to be a better human and live a life that can bring happiness and peace to oneself and to others. Let us help our children and the people in our influence to unleash the goodness and make them realize that they are worth living to impact the community and nation.

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