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BORN TO STAND OUT
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out” – Dr. Seuss. Isn’t it amazing how we spend so much of our time trying to fit in and the rest of it trying to stand out? Most of us spend our formative years trying to work out what we need to do to attract cool friends and be accepted by the best groups of people. If we’re honest that desire can continue into adulthood when we try to fit in with the right people in work or even at home amongst our family and friends. Of course fitting in is a perfectly natural thing to want and in fact may even be linked to our survival instincts, but when it turns into a need to change in order to be accepted then we’ve entered into dark…
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THE STONE
I recently wrote a post about a semi-conscious image that intrigued me enough to write a short “poem” posing an important question. The image was based on the notion of whether I believed I was best represented by a stone, a rock or a mountain. I wanted to use the imagery to make me think about how my current journey through life might be seen and therefore where this journey might lead me from here. The more I thought about the three elements of this image the more I realised each one had something to teach me and so I thought I’d see what lessons seeing myself as a stone, rock or mountain might open up to me. “The stone is a mountain that stays on the move At the mercy of weather and wind Facing no…
