For the first time, I feel like my life is coming into focus. I feel like something important is within my grasp. Like I’m finally figuring out who I am. Or accepting who I am.
I’ve spent so many years – wasted so many years – trying to be something I’m not. Not anything wrong, mind you. Except that anything that’s not me is wrong for me.
I’m feeling comfortable in my own skin for the first time. Confident. Okay with myself – flaws and all. And it feels . . . amazing. Cathartic. Free.
And I don’t want to go back to boxing myself away. Square peg round holing my soul.
I’m just going to be me. A better version of me. Every day.
-Jessica
Linking up with Lisa Jo’s Five Minute Friday.
LOVE THIS Jessica!
Thanks. :)
Me too :)
THis is such a beautiful, freeing write! It is a gift to be ture to who we really are!
Popping by from Five minute Friday
I used to think the whole concept sounded so cliche but now I’m embracing it. :)
beautiful… that last line was super powerful. great writing today!
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richelle @ “our wright”-ing pad recently posted..Five Minute Friday ~ Grasp
Thanks. Five minutes really isn’t long to do much with!
Very awesome post.
denise recently posted..Five Minute Friday/Grasp
Thank you. :)
YES! Keep being yourself… nobody else can be you!
Lyssa recently posted..The Beginning of the End; Glimpsing the Beginning
It all sounds so “motivational poster” but I just don’t care. :)
:) Thank you for sharing this today. I went to my counseling session last night and expressed the need to be me. Loved it. Thanks again!
I think we all struggle with this to one degree or another.
Not only does it free us from the expectations we think others have, but it frees us to be the vessel He can use…beautifully written!
Tammy Skipper (@Tammy_Skipper) recently posted..Grasp
I suspect truth in your words. :)
I feel exactly this way too.
Kelly J Youngblood recently posted..What’s It Like to Be a Top Blogger?
High five.
Oh, my song you sing! I’ve given way too many years trying to be what I thought I should rather than being who I was, who HE designed me to be.
As always, I lovey your transparency!!
Stefanie Brown (@stefanieybrown) recently posted..Five Minute Friday: Grasp
I love this quote because the complicatedness of it points out the absurdity in the practice itself. :)
Stepping into that space today with you. Where I am beginning to feel more comfortable with who He has created me to be and less about others expectations. Thank you for sharing! Blessings!
Wendy recently posted..Time
Is it just me or does it seem like many of us are sort of just waking up to this?
Been thinking and writing A LOT about identity recently.
Abby Norman recently posted..Five Minute Friday: Wide
Seriously, identityitis is going around. :)