Makers Magazine - Spring 2024 - Flipbook - Page 20
Maybe you saw someone doing their thing and thought, I want to be like them, and
you started to pursue that particular manifestation. The truth is that none of us can
ever actually become someone else. Even if we acquired all the things they had, we still
would never accomplish that dream, because we will never embody someone else’s
incarnation fully. We can only become the fullest version of ourselves . . . and honestly,
none of us know what our unique manifestation of that looks like yet.
But we hope to know. And crying on that toilet, feeling the death of a dream, was
the door of hope opening a little. I could now see more clearly my cherished desire.
Eventually, I stopped crying and spent some time thinking about what was happening
to me. The question I found myself asking at the end of that time was this:
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH THIS NEW FOUND DISCOVERY OF THE KIND OF
PERSON I WANT TO BE IN THE WORLD?
Adapted from Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Heath of a Dream by Scott Erickson
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