Those of you who have only known me for a short while probably won't know just how passionate I am about writing. Ever since I can remember I've loved expressing myself through writing. I started out journaling as a child. Everywhere I went, my journal came with me. When I would run out of clean pages, I'd get my mom to purchase me another one. As I got older, I started creating fictional characters in my head, and I'd write about them, contructing detailed scenarios and situations. In the 7th grade, I wrote a Thanksgiving Day play using puppets as the characters. The play was performed at our Thanksgiving Day Program in front of the entire school. From there, my passion blossomed. I found myself writing short stories and entering them into contests within my school. I won 1st place so many times that they banned me from entering so to give others a chance to win. I wrote a fiction short story my freshmen year of college and somehow a friend got a hold of it, read it, and insisted that I enter it into the campus-wide contest. I did, not thinking that I'd win, as sooo many people had entered their material. This wasn't grade school... I was up against the "big dogs". To my surprise, I won first place. My passion for writing grew even further from that moment on. I now desired to become an author. Life happened though, and suddenly writing and publishing a novel was no longer a priorty. That passion resides in me to this day. I still keep a jorurnal, I still write fiction novels, and now I find myself blogging every chance I get. My goal is to get my first novel published by the end of 2015. It can be done and it will be done.
I would like to take this time to share one of my favorite blogs with you, entitled "Analysis of Self". I wrote it a while back...in May of 2011, and it still stands out as one of my best blogs. I found out last year that it is one of the reasons why my current employer decided to hire me. The interviewer came across it while "Googling" me. She read it and LOVED it! She even printed it out and kept it at her desk! ENJOY!
I would like to take this time to share one of my favorite blogs with you, entitled "Analysis of Self". I wrote it a while back...in May of 2011, and it still stands out as one of my best blogs. I found out last year that it is one of the reasons why my current employer decided to hire me. The interviewer came across it while "Googling" me. She read it and LOVED it! She even printed it out and kept it at her desk! ENJOY!
Analysis of Self
Most people continue living life not knowing who
they are. Blind to their very being. So ultimately they are lost in a world
where everyone holds a mirror to someone else. The image within the mirror is
easily distorted, an image who's clarity can never exist unless you yourself
know exactly who looks back at you in that reflection. So who are you? To truly
answer this question with truth, come clean with yourself. Mentally eliminate
all beings around you to where the only person in the world seems to be you.
Analyze yourself as if you were underneath a high-powered microscope. Look
beneath your skin, deep down inside. Come face to face with your findings and
accept those findings. Do not only accept the things that receives praise from
others, but also the things that should. Not only that, accept the things that
you're not necessarily proud of. Take it all in. ACCEPT IT! Denying your flaws
takes away from WHO YOU ARE! Don't deny them, own them. They are in fact YOUR
flaws. By owning your flaws, you are saying, "Hey, I know I have flaws, and I'm
not necessarily proud of these flaws, but these flaws are MY flaws, flaws that
make me who I am and I'm proud of who I am despite of these flaws". When you own
your flaws, the way you see yourself is clear. After acceptance comes change!
Now you know what you need to work on to make YOU better. When you ignore who
you really are you can't go about making necessary changes. When you accept
those flaws and change them accordingly, no matter how your reflection appears
on someone else's mirror, you will see the truth! So you see, it's not how
others see you, its how you see yourself. When you know who looks back at you in
your own mirror, everyone else's mirror will show the very same image. YOU! And
it will be you in your entirety, flaws and all! So I ask again....Who are
you?
they are. Blind to their very being. So ultimately they are lost in a world
where everyone holds a mirror to someone else. The image within the mirror is
easily distorted, an image who's clarity can never exist unless you yourself
know exactly who looks back at you in that reflection. So who are you? To truly
answer this question with truth, come clean with yourself. Mentally eliminate
all beings around you to where the only person in the world seems to be you.
Analyze yourself as if you were underneath a high-powered microscope. Look
beneath your skin, deep down inside. Come face to face with your findings and
accept those findings. Do not only accept the things that receives praise from
others, but also the things that should. Not only that, accept the things that
you're not necessarily proud of. Take it all in. ACCEPT IT! Denying your flaws
takes away from WHO YOU ARE! Don't deny them, own them. They are in fact YOUR
flaws. By owning your flaws, you are saying, "Hey, I know I have flaws, and I'm
not necessarily proud of these flaws, but these flaws are MY flaws, flaws that
make me who I am and I'm proud of who I am despite of these flaws". When you own
your flaws, the way you see yourself is clear. After acceptance comes change!
Now you know what you need to work on to make YOU better. When you ignore who
you really are you can't go about making necessary changes. When you accept
those flaws and change them accordingly, no matter how your reflection appears
on someone else's mirror, you will see the truth! So you see, it's not how
others see you, its how you see yourself. When you know who looks back at you in
your own mirror, everyone else's mirror will show the very same image. YOU! And
it will be you in your entirety, flaws and all! So I ask again....Who are
you?