I have this journal that I have been writing quotes in since I was 14. I am finally close to filling the entire book, front to back. There are so many quotes that I can almost get lost in them. I always imagined how it would feel once I finally filled the entire book with all my factorite quotes that speak to my soul. Now that it is almost full, I have realized something.
Those words are not mine, even if I wrote them with my own hand. They do not say much about me. What they do say is how lazy I am. I have filled page after page with words that are not my own in an effort of learn about myself. All I have learned is I take shortcuts and I care too much about what others think of me. I am afraid to speak my mind. Even writing this I fear that someone will read this, judging me for the stupidity of my actions. I am afraid. This is what I will change this year.
I will be original.
I will speak my mind.
I will be brave in my effort to write apologetically.
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