never forget who you are
photo: Jodie Turner-Smith
And as for the critics, tell me I don’t get it, everybody can tell you how to do it, they never did it. - Jay Z
Sometimes when people watch sports, they shout at their screens as though the players could hear them, passionately expressing how they could’ve played a different way and maybe scored. But if they were really the players in that situation, how are they so sure they would’ve taken their own advice?
People sometimes give advice on how certain things ought to be done when they’ve never even been close to being in a similar position. Fact is, you never really know how you’re going to react to certain things until they happen.
Oya do am, if e easy! - Burna Boy
We’re all on different paths, we have different ways of reasoning, different mannerisms, different viewpoints. We’re all different. We sometimes fall into the trap of forgetting this when we spot an error someone else made that we’re “certain” we would have evaded. But sometimes, what’s an error to you, may not even be an error to someone else.
If you allow yourself to be suffocated by external opinions, you may end up forgetting your own. Your perspective matters. Before getting lost in what others think, and how they may have done something you did differently, remember and understand your uniqueness that influences your actions and decision making. Your individuality matters.
None of this means anyone is perfect and liberated from the inevitability of making mistakes. The issue is if we’re smothered by criticism or even praise, we may forget to even ask ourselves what we think and how we view circumstances that occur in our own lives.
People judge, people talk, but in spite of all that noise, don’t forget there’s only one you. Don’t forget who you are.
Never forget who you are.
Until the next one
-C
