Jul 20 2007
We Are All Waiting
We all long to be discovered.
We stand in line, stew in traffic, and pause at the copy machine.
We answer the phone, deal with clients, and ring up items at the cash register.
We go about our daily lives, unseen, unwillingly cloaked in the ordinary. We don’t want to be a movie star or the next top model. We’re not asking for our 15 minutes of fame.
We yearn for something much harder to find. We long to be discovered.
We long for the moment when someone sees past all that we are not.
We are not our clothing, our skin, our hair, our color, or our scent.
No matter what we look like, we yearn for the moment when someone sees us.
We’re sitting on the bus, crossing the street, taking your order and asking for spare change and we’re all waiting.
We’re waiting for someone to look into our eyes and see into our heart.
We’re all waiting for someone to discover our light.
We’re waiting for someone to cup our face in their hands, to look into our eyes and see our inner, shining light. We want to be seen and known and not found lacking. We want our beauty to be discovered.
We are all beautiful and we are all waiting. We are waiting to be seen.
It’s wonderful how beautiful everyone looks when you look at them with love.
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We are all looking for these things. You’ve tied up the most basic and important human needs out there in a great post. It’s not easy to capture this.
This is a fundamental human need, I agree. Beautiful post MsQ, it brought a lot of emotion to me..
Have you heard the song “I am not my hair” by India aire? The chorus goes like this: “I am not my hair/I am not this skin/ I am not your expectations.. I am not my hair/I am not this skin/ I am the soul that lives within.”
Yes, we are all waiting. What a great post. I’m going to regroup and read this again later.
Always keeping me thinking Ms. Q
Amen! Awesome post
Ricardo: Thank you. I really appreciate your words. This post was the ghost of an idea earlier in the year and it just wasn’t ready to be born.
The past few months have been heart-opening. People think of learning as “eye-opening” but there are also lessons that are “heart-opening” and when you open your heart, you let in love and you let in pain.
It is much easier to live with the belief that you don’t need anyone. The day you allow yourself to desire someone, the day you want to see your beauty reflected in another’s eyes, is the day you open your heart.
I needed to open my heart to write this post. I know and love many lonely people, people who are waiting just like me.
Irisi: I hadn’t heard that particular song but I’m familiar with her India Arie video song:
When I look in the mirror the only one there is me
Every freckle on my face is where it’s supposed to be
And I know our creator didn’t make no mistakes on me
My feet, my thighs, my lips, my eyes; I’m lovin’ what I see
I did look up her “I am not my hair” on YouTube. She really does great songs on self-acceptance!
UT: When you realize how we are all waiting, you begin to see everyone in a whole new light. If you are suffering and you are learning from your pain, you begin to feel compassion. I’ve been learning quite a bit these last few months. I’m still learning. I thought there was Summer Break. Dang! Guess not.
Gregg: Thanks!