We are the stories we tell ourselves. I forget where I originally heard this idea, but it plays in my mind surprisingly often. I love movies, just like I believe most people do, because they’re stories that I see myself in.
What are the stories I’m telling myself now? One of the stories I used to tell myself was, I’m highly sensitive. Another story was that I’m extremely introverted.
Both of those stories brought me pride and pain. Eventually, I let go of those stories when I began traveling more and surrounding myself with people with whom I didn’t try to pretend to be someone I’m not.
Now, I still consider myself sensitive and, at times, introverted, but I’ve shed the stories I used to carry, which made those two words feel so limiting.
We are the stories we tell ourselves. Now I’m releasing another story I’ve outgrown, which says I must be careful not to be too visible. In other words, my story goes, I’m the hermit who reflects and ponders the world from a safe distance.
I don’t want this to be a story I tell myself any longer; instead, I want to be someone who is fully in the world, participating as much as anybody else.
I love a lot of aspects of New Age Spirituality, but I don’t want the words like Lightworker and Starseed to make me feel that I’m permanently homesick for somewhere far away, and I can’t call Earth my one true home.
I believe we’re all aliens in the sense that we all have a Soul that chose to incarnate here on Earth. We’re all equally home here on Earth, and I’m in the same Earth playground and school as anybody else.
We are the stories we tell ourselves, and I’m at home in my body and here on Earth, surrounded by the exact same mystery and magic that all humans experience in some form.
I believe I must see myself in all others to be fully free. I’ll always keep my ego, have healthy boundaries, and see each human as beautifully unique, but underneath it all, I must never forget that our essence is always the same.
Loneliness is an illusion that comes from the false idea that other people can’t fully understand us, but the only time we feel that way is when we don’t fully understand ourselves.
I know the deepest essence that you are, because I know my deepest essence, and therefore all is perfectly love, no matter how things appear.
All is one; the constantly evolving, yet never-changing dance of life.
Love,
Eric
