112/365 - Who we Really Were (Julia Cameron)

“Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny.

 We may not know that we have one. 

As children, 

we are seldom told we have a place in life 

that is uniquely ours alone. 

Instead, 

we are encouraged to believe that our life 

should somehow fulfill the expectations of others,

 that we will (or should)

 find our satisfactions 

as they have found theirs.

 Rather than being taugh to ask ourselves

 who we are, 

we are schooled to ask others. 

We are, in effect, 

trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves.

 We are brought up in our life 

as told to us by someone else!

 When we survey our lives, 

seeking to fulfill our creativity, 

we often see we had a dream

 that went glimmering 

because we believed,

 and those around us believed, 

that the dream was beyond our reach. 

Many of us would have been, 

or at least might have been, 

done, tried something, if...

If we had known who we really were.”

  - Julia Cameron