Who you are is all you've got. The measure of your worth is not in your stuff, your possessions, the money you may or may not have accumulated, but instead in the person you allowed yourself to be, the individual that you created from your experiences and your history, and the one who you brought to each and every interaction.
Look beyond the trappings of how you look. See beyond the outward appearances and judgments that those around you make continually and you yourself make about yourself and about others.
Tune into your still small voice that only you can hear. Are you being real? Are you being authentic? Or, instead, like so many people, are you caught up in playing many roles as defined by others, not you?
My mother led three distinct and almost entirely separate lives. She played the role of Mom, which we knew, the role of Anne Baxter to her fans and public, and the role of Anne, with a private life.
Her lives didn't really cross much, she kept them apart and I can only imagine how much work that took and what it might have looked like if instead they'd all been one whole person, instead of effective fragments.
