I wasn't given the opportunity
to choose my name. Nor my birth date. I didn't get to choose
what brand of diapers I preferred. That was done for me.
I had to attend the schools
that my home was zoned to. Wasn't given much choice in the subjects
I took and I had to take a lunch break not a minute before my
allotted time.
I wore what
the social circles called the norm. I played a sport with rules
already established. I ate three meals a day and went to bed on
someone else's time. I did life like everyone else did. I accepted
what was.
My life became as if I was
on Auto-pilot. Many of my thoughts were those given to me. Many
of the rules of life were those I bought into from someone else.
Everything was so "laid out" for me that I wasn't
real sure what I wanted in life. I wasn't real sure why I felt
the way I did and why things meant what they meant to me. Not
sure that I ever gave some things much thought. I never had
to. And so, in a sense, I just wasn't real sure who
I was!
I went thru
life's motions until life started not working for me in several
areas. Slowly but surely I began questioning WHY and WHY NOT.
No one seemed to have the answers that satisfied me.
More. I
wanted more. And more still. Suddenly it wasn't enough that divorce
rates were nearing 60% and signs of stress levels were at an all
time high. I knew that it all didn't HAVE to be the way it was
regardless of what "they" told me.
Then I WOKE
UP! HOLY COW! I GOT IT! It was as if somebody squeegeed those
darn bugs off my windshield and I saw...
