Apr 17 2007
Make Space For Yourself
You need space to find yourself.
Sometimes you don’t even know you are lost.
We each have our own story yet somehow we all end up writing the same chapter.
The chapter begins with a question: Is this all there is?
It makes us uncomfortable because we don’t know the answer.
We may try to skip that chapter but the question will remain.
We need to answer that question. I am still trying to answer it.
I asked myself another question: What is my purpose?
At some point we question what our purpose is. Once we ask that question
We find we have to let go of all the junk, the trinkets, the cheap crap.
We have to let go of it all to make space.
The question will be unanswered until we make that space within ourselves.
I was filled with junk. I couldn’t find myself.
I felt uncomfortable: all that crap filling up my space.
Who was I? Where was I?
I was lost.
Are you making space for yourself?
Maybe you’re like me and allowed yourself to be filled with lost objects.
Those Cracker Jack and gumball machine sentiments that others left behind.
Maybe you were like me and filled yourself up with junk
because you didn’t know any better.
I don’t know your secrets.
I don’t know your pain.
I don’t know your story.
Maybe you’ve hidden behind anger or lost yourself in drink.
Maybe you’ve made some space for yourself, too.
Perhaps you poured out some sorrow, self-doubts and blame
Quietly accepting who you are, discarding who you don’t want to be.
I threw out a bunch of crap to make some space.
Some of it wasn’t even mine.
I needed a place for me.
We all need a place for ourselves.
Are you asking yourself, “Is this all there is?”
Are you asking yourself, “What is my purpose?”
Make a space for yourself.
You’ll find your answer there.
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Happy (re) birthday.
My space is on the 5 freeway going towards San Diego at 3am in the Morning with the sunroof open and under the million stars!
Gary: So driving under the stars is where you find your answers?
I’ve created space by writing.
Good job for making space
I like this post because it kind of relates how I’ve felt this last year or so.
Expressing yourself to others and being able to have a person that you know you can always talk to about things helps too. I like to self reflect on things quite a bit as of lately..
Gregg: You’re lucky to be making space so early in life. From your blog I can see that you’ve thought through quite a few things already and are always redefining and finding yourself. I don’t mean to sound condescending in any way. I have just seen so many people who live most of their life unquestioningly. Then they suddenly “wake up” and while they may make changes in their lives, they don’t have as much time to enjoy them.
I think sharing your thoughts with others a great way to gain some perspective and insight. It’s also valuable to connect with others. I think reserved people can become a bit lost in their own head.
I have been going through what I call a “growth spurt” – I may be significantly short but I always hope to grow! I’ve gone through many of them in my life. It’s usually accompanied by Growing Pains.
This post was difficult for me to write – I had difficulties with figuring out how to express what I wanted to say. I had this image in mind, this idea and even now it feels a bit clumsy! I took a few things out which I hope to make into another post.
I think your header picture says it all.
Vast rolling hills stand before us. Amazing things lay behind every horizon. And it’s only if we believe there’s nothing over the next rise that we sit where we are.
That stuff that makes us sit where we are is the stuff that has to go.
Shane: How eloquently stated!
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