just be you

for a long time i struggled with this small sentence: "just be you." every time i saw a movie or met a new person i adapted to their personality and wanted to be them or like them. after awhile i started to realize that i am unique and God has made me special. no one else is like me. imagine God shaping and forming you and puts you into a mold. when He is done He throws that mold away and starts again with someone new. God didn't make minions that all look the same, He made you special, He doesn't want you to be someone you're not. i took me sometime to realize that. i feel like when i first moved here to Georgia i started my "just be you" journey. i compared myself many times out here. there were only a couple of girls in our community and i didn't know them. so when we started to hangout more i adapted to them and their personalities. i bought clothes that looked similar to their clothes, i acted like them and the list goes on. i feel like i started to know the real me just last year. being in the same pattern for so long just got boring, so i did some digging and realized a lot of new things about myself. for example, i knew i liked writing but never thought to make that my job, like in life, when i got older. now i write all the time, and i really love it! ever since i was little i remember having diaries and writing down everything that happened that day. i also didn't know i liked playing instruments. i started with ukulele, my friend had one and i loved the sounds. so for christmas i got a uke. i picked it up really fast and learned to play a bunch of songs. next i tried piano, a teacher would come to my house and practice with me. but honestly i didn't feel like it was for me, so i quit. the last instrument i started was guitar. it is my favorite instrument! i love playing it and hearing the sounds when i strum. there are so many things i could tell you that i discovered about myself, but i won't. just know that sometimes we may act like people we aren't and that means your still testing the waters and trying to figure out who we are. i'm not saying that its okay to be someone you aren't, but try to find things you are good at and little by little you'll find the real you. don't forget to just be you and that God made you very special to Him.

until next time!

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