Raise Your Glass
For the better part of my life, all I wanted was to be “normal”. I look at the world and my peers and everyone seems to be part of this exclusive club. They all have their groups of people who they refer to as their ride or dies. I’ve always been labeled as “too sensitive”, “too loud”, “too fast”, “too out there” among other things. What does any of these phrases even mean and where can I find the definition, please?
Labels suck. They keep us boxed in and assigned to this role we are supposed to play. I have been learning quickly that the only role I want to play is ME. Authentically and pure and all the magic that comes with it.
Was texting with someone recently who said it was “normal to fluctuate” and my response was, “wonderful. I don’t’ want to be normal”. Response back: Then be your extraordinary wonderful self with no limits.
I never wanted to be normal. I do not desire to be normal. What is normal?
When we start to embrace who we are, we often find life is more thrilling and exciting. There is an “at ease” feeling within.
So, for all the times I have been “too ANYTHING” for anyone else, I have been magical for myself. Why do we let people dim our light and our magic? Opinions are subjective and based on perception and perspective only. Nobody really knows what anyone else is feeling or experiencing, only you do.
While it’s a difficult practice to let the opinions of others just float by, I will always choose my truth over someone else’s perspective.
While working out this week, I was jamming out to a Spotify playlist. Pink’s, “Raise Your Glass” came on and I couldn’t help but start to cry and then smile and want to get up and dance. I choose to embrace what the world thinks is “too much”, because I choose to embrace my extraordinary self.
Do you ever notice when you can be brave and be you, everything else just falls into place? The mountains that seemed too big to climb, now are a challenge you know you can endure and conquer. The belief that you do not belong or fit in dissipates because you fit in the wonderful, beautiful puzzle piece (or meat suit) that is ALL YOU! Suddenly you find yourself in the present moment, breathing and living and taking this earthly place in. Tears can fall, but it passes with ease. You can laugh, like TRULY giggle at what is silly. You are limitless.
Why is it so hard to foster this thought process and stay here? Why are we not being taught this in school or in different modalities of treatment for physical, emotional or mental treatments?
I refuse to sit and conform, when my spirit starts to tap and move to the beat of life. I will get up, dance and embrace all that is me and I hope you will, too.
We feel we are too much, because others have a hard time relating to the reality of who someone is and can be.
I struggle with self-doubt and decisions I have made to better myself. But I can smile and remain proud of myself; “if you are wrong, in all the right ways” – because what was wrong in everyone else’s world, it was the RIGHT in my world.
