Something I’d forgotten.
I love getting reminders, especially when those reminders jar something in your mind and stir something in your soul and make you remember the importance of something you’ve held stubbornly to or continued doing doggedly determined not to stop but forgot somewhere along the way just why you were doing it in the first place.
This morning a good friend posted a blog that helped me remember why it is that I cannot live an ordinary Life. Why it is that I dress the way I do and talk the way I do and deal with people the way I do. I do these things to please myself, yes, but that is never enough for me when it comes right down to it on the important stuff. I’m the type of person that needs a motivation larger than myself to continue with something, especially if it’s difficult. No, my reward is in challenging people’s misconceptions, in shaking their dearly held convictions and making them question what they’ve been told to believe, to make them think… to reconsider… to open those iron-clad minds just a hair, just enough to plant a seed, just enough to encourage growth and let in a little sunlight… just enough to make them doubt their prejudice.
I’d forgotten that. Goddess help me I had forgotten. To remember it now is so refreshing I feel encouraged.
“No, my reward is in challenging people’s misconceptions, in shaking their dearly held convictions and making them question what they’ve been told to believe, to make them think… to reconsider… to open those iron-clad minds just a hair, just enough to plant a seed, just enough to encourage growth and let in a little sunlight… just enough to make them doubt their prejudice.”
You have deserved your reward. =) Prejudice sounds like such a harsh word, but I suppose that is the word for it. Although my prejudice was based solely on what I was taught to believe all these years. Thank you for opening my eyes.
I so left you a comment the other day and it disappeared….. wonder what it said? hmmmm