Alexander the Great
Don Juan
- Joined
- May 3, 2008
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SiYuan, I think your football coach tried to tell you that you should stop trying to be something you are not. I'm not saying you shouldn't be a football player, but simply stop trying to be one that you aren't.
When I was younger, I wanted to be a scientist. A researcher high up in his ivory tower, looking for the Truth in the Universe. I wanted to be like Einstein. Respected. Admired. Revered. Busy with discovering the beauty of existence.
A kid sees a superhero on TV and dreams to be like that from that point. He longs for the admiration and respect the hero begets for his daring deeds at helping people in misery. For years, he tries to be that superhero, only to meet failure every step of the way. He's trying to be someone and something that he's not. He trying to do things the way someone else does them, which are not his way.
I stopped wanting to be Einstein after 20 years when I really realized that I'm really good with people, not particularly so with numbers and abstracts. I stopped wanting to be Einstein when I stopped mistaking my interest in physics and my appreceation for the importance of people like him, for my own destiny in life.
The kid who wanted to be a superhero fell three stories from his apartment building when he was 20. He tried to jump to the next building, acting on his fantasy and convinced it was "not that far". He's been in a wheelchair ever since because he broke his neck, and now he's now standing up for people publicly to advocate facilities for the physically impaired.
He's using his strong inner desire to help people. Just not the way he always thought he should.
I stopped feeling a need to be respected like Einstein for unravelling the secrets of the Universe when I found out who I am and what I stand for and when I got respected for that. Now I am on my way to do my thing to unravel the most important Universe of all: the inner soul. No longer am I desperately looking to be loved and admired by trying to be someone I'm not and will never will be, because I mistook my desire for something for something else. I'm now respected and appreciated for who I am. And I no longer need that admiration and respect. I'm simply who I am and I believe in my value. I'm me. That comfort is all the love and respect I need.
Life teaches us the lessons we need to learn. How? By simply living it, we are taught. We finally learn by becoming quiet and attuned to our inner universe and listening to ourselves.
Don't try to be someone you're not. Just be you. Appreciate you. Appreciate your love for the things you love and find important. Regardless of what others think of them. By listening to yourself, you'll find out who you are. By becoming more like who you are, you find yourself. And as yourself, remaining respectful and humble to others without allowing them to trump all over you, you are able to be yourself.
That's the Truth of the Universe. Einstein discovered that too and in that, I'm exactly like him after all.
When I was younger, I wanted to be a scientist. A researcher high up in his ivory tower, looking for the Truth in the Universe. I wanted to be like Einstein. Respected. Admired. Revered. Busy with discovering the beauty of existence.
A kid sees a superhero on TV and dreams to be like that from that point. He longs for the admiration and respect the hero begets for his daring deeds at helping people in misery. For years, he tries to be that superhero, only to meet failure every step of the way. He's trying to be someone and something that he's not. He trying to do things the way someone else does them, which are not his way.
I stopped wanting to be Einstein after 20 years when I really realized that I'm really good with people, not particularly so with numbers and abstracts. I stopped wanting to be Einstein when I stopped mistaking my interest in physics and my appreceation for the importance of people like him, for my own destiny in life.
The kid who wanted to be a superhero fell three stories from his apartment building when he was 20. He tried to jump to the next building, acting on his fantasy and convinced it was "not that far". He's been in a wheelchair ever since because he broke his neck, and now he's now standing up for people publicly to advocate facilities for the physically impaired.
He's using his strong inner desire to help people. Just not the way he always thought he should.
I stopped feeling a need to be respected like Einstein for unravelling the secrets of the Universe when I found out who I am and what I stand for and when I got respected for that. Now I am on my way to do my thing to unravel the most important Universe of all: the inner soul. No longer am I desperately looking to be loved and admired by trying to be someone I'm not and will never will be, because I mistook my desire for something for something else. I'm now respected and appreciated for who I am. And I no longer need that admiration and respect. I'm simply who I am and I believe in my value. I'm me. That comfort is all the love and respect I need.
Life teaches us the lessons we need to learn. How? By simply living it, we are taught. We finally learn by becoming quiet and attuned to our inner universe and listening to ourselves.
Don't try to be someone you're not. Just be you. Appreciate you. Appreciate your love for the things you love and find important. Regardless of what others think of them. By listening to yourself, you'll find out who you are. By becoming more like who you are, you find yourself. And as yourself, remaining respectful and humble to others without allowing them to trump all over you, you are able to be yourself.
That's the Truth of the Universe. Einstein discovered that too and in that, I'm exactly like him after all.
