THE ORIGINAL

Hey Blue Bloods! How was your week? And the week before? It’s been a tremendously busy fortnight for me. Loads of work, work and more work! I guess that comes with the ‘responsibility of age’ which is inevitable… that’s not my focus today though.

I want to share my thoughts on ‘the original’ or originality. Now, I’m not talking about Klaus, Elijah or Rebecca…LOL! (For those of you who get my drift). In my small length of life, I may have gained ‘vast’ experience, some of which are not self-experienced but are stories of the lives of those I know and those I do not know. It surprises me how the life of everyone is so unique, even the lives of those connected by blood. For instance, I and my brother are two extremely different people. It took me sometime to resonate with how he didn’t do things my way and I love him so much for that. I am reserved but people who are very familiar with me know that there’s a ‘genie trapped in a bottle’ inside of me. Well, I think everyone has that ‘genie’, but the nature of our ‘genies’ are different.

What’s my point in all of this? I’ve noticed that we live in a world where we try to follow glamour and some of us don’t realise that there’s something that smile hides- someone trapped in insecurity, fear or uncertainty. We think we want what the ‘real’ people have, but you know what they say, “Real people have real problems” and some people that we want to be are actually shadows of their real selves. So, before you wish to be that person? Stop to think, “Will I be comfortable having the problems they have?” I am not saying we shouldn’t have people whose positive behaviour we want to emulate. I’m saying, we should aspire to be us. Yes, we may not like our flaws, who does? But, our flaws make us who we are and like it or not, those flaws are designed in a unique way to fit our unique purpose. All we just have to do is develop ourselves for the better.

I heard this from a great man, “You can’t love anyone better than you love yourself” and wherever you go, there will always be one person around you and that is YOU. So, embrace YOU because YOU would always be YOU.

Have a great weekend my fellow Aristocrats. Till we share again. Remember it’s all about the attitude. Live, love and enjoy the moment…xoxo.