JUST B...YOU

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― André Gide

Life is a peculiar thing... We tend to strive to have a cookie cutter life... to live the American dream--whatever that is-- Sometimes we get so caught up in conforming to the dreams of others that we lose, or even worse never find, our true selves. We get SO caught up in trying to live a "normal" life that sometimes we give up the things that make us who we are...we surrender them for the "greater good" letting go of our personal dreams, falling into the trap of society norms. 

What is normal anyway?--I'll tell you what "normal" is....it's ORDINARY....it's REGULAR....it's COMMON!!! Ick!!! All those things are so...so... NORMAL! I'm NOT normal and neither are you; you weren't created to be normal...you were created unique. You were created to be.......yeah you guessed it--- YOU!!

STOP trying to be "normal" because you're far from it--You're not ordinary--you're EXTRAORDINARY!!!! 

I was talking with a friend yesterday and I told him that all the things that he was trying to "fix" about his personality are the the very things that make him who he is... he's quirky and high strung and just FULL of personality I told him to STOP trying to be normal!!! It would be a shame for a colorful person like yourself to become dull and common... What a loss the world suffers when we lose our originality and SPICE--WE need a society FULL of colorful people, gray is sooo depressing and uneventful!! 

Trying to conform breeds insecurity and insecurity is crippling...it's an enemy that consumes people who are striving to be something that they are not. If people could just learn to embrace "who" they are (quirks and all) insecurity would be a thing of the past. I am who I am and I REALLY enjoy being me...there's no one else I would rather be! Granted I have some things in my personality that could use some improvements, I always want to grow and become a better 'ME'... but I refuse to be the me you want...that's not me at ALL!!! 

When you embrace who you are...you achieve an indescribably inner peace, and you step into LIFE an EXTRAORDINARY life--- YOUR LIFE! Be YOU...no one else will do.

I refuse to live a "normal" life...I'm going to live MY life...MY extraordinary life-- with the one that I love... with the people that love ME...It may not look like much to you...BUT I really don't care because it's mine.. 

Love me or hate me.... But ME is all you're going to get! 

Just Bb        

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous--how well I know it.--Psalm 139:14