How Do We See Ourselves?
Experts like to tell us things. Sometimes
it may even be something we want to hear. These two experts are making jams. It looks like strawberry and maybe a berry—blueberry or blackberry jam. Their expertise looks like it is in how to have a good time.
When my children were young I read to them a lot. And I didn't just read to them, but we'd look at the pictures and talk about what was happening in the picture, and maybe even talk about how it went with the story.
For this picture we see a Grandma aged woman with grey hair and she's smiling at a grandchild aged young girl. The older woman has a colander with berries, and the young girl has a bowl with more berries.
If someone took a picture of anyone of us at this moment how would they see us? If we held up a mirror and looked into that reflection of us therein how would we see us?
The experts, and this may be a different set of experts than the ones above, tell us that there is the way other people view us, the way we see ourselves, and the reality of what we are.
The way we are on the outside is often a reflection of who we are on the inside.
On the inside I am always in control, neat, punctual, a list maker and organized. You'd might not know that from looking at me on the outside.
Life has the way of stomping on my 'always in control'. Be it a flat tire, the car blowing a hose, a child getting sick...in other cases any unexpected serendipity will do.
Any one of those items blows the 'neat, punctual, list maker, and organized' right smack out of the water.
Having confessed this, I can also say that there is a difference between life stomping on who we are and allowing ourselves to be something undesirable.
In reading I have come across the idea that be it success or failure all of what we are comes from with in us. I suppose it's like we attract what we want from life.
This is only a partial truth. To say that when some tragedy befalls us it is because we attracted that tragedy is poppycock.
To say that people are successful because they believe they are successful inside themselves is more poppycock.
On the other hand I do believe if you are to be successful in monetary matters, or in most any other affair for that matter, we need to look for ways to succeed and that usually begins on the inside.
In the last few years we've seen the house-flippers, the real estate moguls, and any other number of entrepreneurs who become wealthy and retire early.
These are often people who hit bottom and say, 'But this isn't who I am.' Or they start looking early for a solution to what they want.
