Daily Mantra: “Insist on yourself. Never Imitate.”
{ralph.waldo.emerson}
Do you remember when you first started dating in middle or high school, and you were getting ready for your first date, and you were kind of nervous, so your mother (or father in my case) came into your bedroom (obviously invading your space) and told you to ‘just be yourself’?
Your thought and/or comment was probably the same as mine. . . “Um….no way, Mom…thanks for the advice though.” (door slamming in her face)
As Mikki was running to catch the bus this morning, all bundled in her winter coat because it was 17 degrees outside, wearing a hat that was slightly leaning to one side, one sock pulled up higher than the other, her nose running a bit with her perpetual cold, and one shoe lace untied, waving at me over her shoulder, yet not looking back…off to conquer another day of Kindergarten….I said a prayer to myself that she would always stay true to her eccentric, yet unconditionally loving self. I could actually hear myself saying the words my dad did to me on my first date when I was 16. Maybe he was hoping if I WAS my crazy self, the guy would totally ditch me, and he wouldn’t have to worry about the whole ordeal.
I bet that was it.
I dated that guy for 3 years, and then listened to my dad.
by amanda.b.
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