It's Ok To Be A Square Peg

I came across this image and the statement "It's ok to be a square peg" and I love it. I tried for so many years to be everything for everyone, to fit in, to be the same as everyone, and I've come to realise that I'm not like anyone else. I have my own strengths and weaknesses and I am learning that it is ok to have them. I now know that:

I AM A SQUARE PEG!

I'm not meant to be like everyone else. But, as hard as I tried, I was never like them. I always felt left out. That I wasn't enough. That society said I was different and being different was wrong. But it's SO not wrong. I will never fit the round hole - being society - because I am meant to stand out, to be different, and to be me. I don't want to sound like I'm stuck up or full of myself, but I feel as though I am here for a reason, for this season and my life will make a difference. I've been through things that will allow me to help others but not only that, there is a new path that I know I need to navigate. I don’t quite know what it is or what it looks like, but I know what it feels like.

It feels:

WONDERFUL

FREE

EXCITING

EASY

I want more from life. I want to create the life that I want. I have a paintbrush in hand and I am creating in the most vibrant colours anyone has ever seen.

 

I am living. I am loving. I am Imagining. I am creating.

I love Joseph Campbell’s quote where he says:

“Follow Your Bliss”

My bliss is to create, to encourage, to nurture and support, to show people that they can and will get through the trials they are faced with and that they have the answers and resources already within them. I really believe that. And if they can’t believe it for themselves yet, they just need to trust that I believe it for them until they can. We as human beings have so much potential. A lot of which hasn’t been tapped into yet. I ask you to think of the thing that you want to be most. And then I will tell you that you can be that and more. I know we all had dreams when we were younger and somewhere along the way they have been lost, ignored, forgotten. Find that something within you. That desire in you that wants more than what you have now.  Find that fire inside.  Follow your bliss. And be who you want to be. Create everything you could dream of and see the possibilities that your life will present you. You can create anything you want. I believe that 100% and believe that for everyone.

Live – Love – Imagine - Create

Follow Your Bliss

"The way to find out about your happiness
is to keep your mind on those moments
when you really ARE happy --
not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy.

 
This requires a little bit of self- analysis.
What is it that makes you happy?
Stay with it, no matter what people tell you.
This is what I call, 'Following Your Bliss.'

 
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while, waiting for you.
And the life that you ought to be living,
is the one you ARE living.
Wherever you are, if you are following your bliss,
you are enjoying that refreshment,
that life within you, all the time.

When you can see that,
you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open doors for you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be."

Joseph Campbell

From: The Power of Myth