a glance back to previous thoughts and writings

i was just looking back at a few of my blogs from a while back on myspace and realized that i haven't even thought about these things in quite a while... so i thought i'd repost a few of my favorites. let me know what you think...

happy reading!

"Who are you anymore?"

(Friday, July 20, 2007)

I wish that I could say that I am the first one to imagine this metaphor, but William Shakespeare
beat me to it.
But that's only because he was born four hundred twenty-three and a half years before I was.





I realized the other day that life is nothing but a mere play.
And we are all nothing but mere actors.
Most of us choose to play the part of the fool.



None of us seem want to be our own true selves. (Even though we think we do.)
Everyone has the desire to impress someone.
Everyone has the desire to find something...anything to improve themselves.


We rely on someone else's identity to define who we are.
We are influenced by the people around us and by the things we see and hear.



Is there no originality left in this world?

Have we forgotten who we truly are?

We have replaced who we are piece by piece with small bits of other people around us
until we come to the point that we have forgotten who we are anymore.






So many of us are doing nothing but acting.
Taking the role of someone that we were never intended to be.
Why?

Why do we do what we do?
It is a mystery that no man can answer.




I am one who has taken the role as the fool...

It wasn't until over one year ago that I began to find out who I really am once again.
I no longer found my identity in who was around me.

I realized that my identity is found in Who is IN me.

Every day since then I have been on an ongoing search for who I am.
A search for what makes me me.
I feel today that I am more secure in myself than I have ever been in my entire life.

Just within the last couple of weeks, I will look into the mirror and I literally DO NOT see the
same person that I knew two years ago.
I am virtually unrecognizable to myself anymore. I have COMPLETELY changed!

Day by day, I step off of that stage and quit acting.
I take back my own identity and become that person that God has created me to be.


I am a work in progress. And I'm still learning who I am.
But I know now that I will never be the same.


"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players." 
-Jaques -

"As You Like It" by William Shakespeare