Today’s Oracle takes us to the Gemini weekly of April 8, 2008.
Do not underestimate the originality of your message, your ideas, your creative talent or your vision for yourself. I say this recognizing how far the world has to stretch in order to do anything original. Yet this is immensely complicated by an even deeper drive to be acceptable. So I suggest you take a Sharpie and write on your computer monitor, “You cannot be original and be a conformist at the same time.” Since your message to the world is inherently loving, creative and sensitive, you can scrap the whole issue of acceptability. This will save you incalculable energy. However, you may be shocked when you recognize just how much it takes to set aside what you think other people think of you.
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This is EXACTLY what I have been dealing with. People will tell me they like what I write (when I write spontaneously) but when they ask me to write something (and I ask them what they want me to write about but they won’t answer) and I do, they never get back to me and I end up thinking they really don’t like what I write after all.
No one ever comments on my blog either so I think I am unremarkable. I have been different enough to be marginalized by most mainstream people.
This Oracle nails all that feeling I am having right on the head. I WANT to write, I feel compelled to write, I want to share what I know so it may help someone but life (kids, and family) often get in the way and I cannot do it as often as I like.
I am also afraid of being mediocre and unremarkable because I feel like what I have to say may help someone but if it doesn’t then what am I writing for anyway? I WANT to help people.
So I am writing anyway. And yes, it is scary to think of what other people think of me. VERY scary. Writing is like throwing my heart and soul out there in the hard, cold world and hoping it won’t get trounced on. This sensitive Pisces is afraid of censure. Does what I think or say matter? I don’t know. So it isn’t easy at all.
hmmm….
“you may be shocked when you recognize just how much it takes to set aside what you think other people think of you.”
actually, i think i have some idea. it ain’t easy for some of us!