1.08.2013

freedom to be.

today as i was climbing into my car to head back to work, a thought occurred to me:
"i have the ability to decide who i want to be every single day when i wake up."
i don't know about you, but that is so incredibly freeing to me.  i'm never stuck.  i don't have to be the person that others think i am or want me to be.  i can change the things about myself that i don't like or am not satisfied with.  and all of those things i wanted to do or say or wear, but thought "maybe that's not me"...i can choose to make them me at any given moment.

some days i wake up and realize i want to do more for others or love without fear or drop ten pounds.  today it was as simple as waking up and knowing i wanted my life to include red lipstick.  so i made a trip to the drug store and bought a tube.  i can promise you it was the most liberating five dollar purchase i've made in the entire last year.

we are so lucky that we have the ability to choose what it is that makes us unique.  no matter what anyone says or thinks, i get to be me--whoever or whatever i decide that is.

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