🐎 TREE 283: All the yous

One.

You know those times when you are in an unfamiliar situation and you find yourself doing things you don’t normally do? A common one is when you are visit another country and somehow become braver and more outgoing than you are back home.

Pay attention to those times.

About a decade ago, I went to my local college – shoutout to Llandrillo – and earned a degree in culinary arts. I discovered that while I was in college I felt much freer than I did anywhere else outside my home. I was more open to having my ideas challenged and more honest about what I believed. I liked college me. My fellow students seemed to like college me.

I wanted all the other mes to be more like college me. It took some time and some courage to let the college me be more visible outside college. I had to change some external things in my life too. Ten years on, the me you’ll meet is a lot more like the me I discovered when I went to college.

The next time you find yourself thinking, I’m not normally like this, pay attention. You might be trying to tell yourself something.

Two.

Dennis went to Barbados and came back square. He’s never been happier. (Unrelated: folks get confused when he says, ‘Look into my eyes’.)

Three.

This song is kind of the opposite of today’s post. Also, it’s very good. Blessings in the morning, etc.

One of the good things about ageing is you become more certain of who you are and more comfortable with being who you are. All the yous integrate more and more into the one true you.

Grow slowly into you
Jeff