Each of us is a distinctive human being with our own unique potential to fulfill. One of the most integral pieces of growing in life is discovering that uniqueness – identifying who you are in your own right and who you are in relation to those you encounter along the way. There is something essential about this aspect of being in the world. And how you grow with your inimitable endowments will influence how those around you respond to and relate to you. You become who you truly are over time and through life’s learning experiences.
At the heart of this personal and interpersonal journey is letting go of the notion that you are perfect or that others around you ought to be or are, perfect. Being kind to yourself allows you to accept who you are and to extend that same acceptance to those you meet along the way. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." Plato
What you are ultimately informs what you do. People who have not learned about themselves as they grow are often caught up in the opposite idea that what you do determines who you are. When you are able to combine your inherent talent with the personal investment to bring it to fruition, you become an artist of being alive. It can be a challenge, maybe even a struggle, to figure out who you actually are or, how in your own way, you can establish a life that means a lot to you and fulfill your identity.
There can be fissures in how you encounter the world around you and how you want the world around you to be. Your effect/affect on the world is the personal way in your own life that you bridge those fissures. If the world always came at you on your terms you might not uncover and develop the creative abilities to make your difference in the world.
Inner fulfillment requires integrating what you learn along the way with your own personality and harnessing that to become who you want to be. This is central to creating yourself – there would be no beauty in life if you did not feel inspired to create. We each have different gifts, so we each have our own ways of sharing who we are with the world around us.
