Have the ability to tread lightly, laugh airily, and flit from place to place.
Be like the flame.
Have it in you to burn steady, singe the unwary, and light up a murky corner.
See clearly that your beauty is momentary, transient…and all the more amazing for it.
Be like the stone.
Allow the passage of time to make you more nuanced, more adaptive, more wondrous.
Know that there is no-one else quite like you but that we’ll all end up melted together eventually.
Be like the sun.
Flaunt your light occasionally but know when to fall back and rest quietly in the darkness.
Make sure you shimmer and glimmer with no real objective whatsoever sometimes.
Be like the ocean.
Combine the deep and the shallow within yourself.
Have mysteries and dark corners and shadows within yourself that others cannot reach easily.
Be like the bud.
Celebrate your potential and the roots that make it possible for you to bloom.
Let superfluous and unwanted bits of yourself be trimmed and fall away, unmourned.
Be like the snowpeak.
Exist for yourself first, for the sheer heady bliss of being…be your own zenith.
Learn to shape yourself for someone else, grain by grain, to achieve harmony.
Be like the cliff.
Embrace change and the ravages of the world…they make you impressive, they make you real.
Be like the symphony.
7 comments:
Be Youself and know that, That's enough
Sometimes finding yourself is the hard part :) Plus we can always strive to be better, and evolve into someone we want to be.
Brilliant read! :) Thanks I like the scheme and most of all the essence of the poem!
Cheers!!! do stop by my blog, Kappu
So beautiful. You've touched on something that's been bothering me recently. When we "be yourself", do our heroes die? Are my aspirations doomed to be future disappointments?
But really glad you're writing again. You're very good!
@Kappu - thanks!
@Ashtray - It's been bothering me too. Would love to read your thoughts on it. When are you going to start writing again??
You write beautifully Pallavi. Honest and deeply moving! :)
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