Monday, November 12, 2007

if you build it, they will come

subject : self-discovery
style : creative
source : Erickson

"I don't have to love everybody, but I need to respect everybody."

What do you do, when you know you have to be like them, and if you don't change you will fall behind ?


When at the same time, you are afraid that if you do, you will miss out on a chance to leap ahead -- to show your true colors, and to think up new prospects -- to make something new and different, because your old self was so much more different and unique -- to succeed ?

What do you do, when you know that what you have is working, but that by gaining new insights you will be forced to lose the old, by learning new skills you will forget how to use your talents -- because you cannot keep both, you cannot master the rules, the skills and strategy, of their game and of your own -- and you know, because you are not satisfied with being yourself, that you will be pressed into becoming one of them, in the hopes of profiting, of making some progress, of turning a series of losses into a win ?

When, in making this decision, you are sure it will resolve all difficulties you have had, yet you cannot rid the worry from your mind, the doubt, the deep intuition whose dimension tops the rest, which claims you will be an utter failure, either way, in one sense or the other ?

Just wondering.

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