not chosen

 

Not chosen.

One of life’s biggest challenges has got to be maintaining self-worthiness in the face of not being picked. For the friendship…….the job……..the love relationship………the award of recognition. There are a myriad of ways in which we find ourselves standing alone in the middle of the cold gymnasium floor where teams have formed around us. Tough, tough work it is to keep our head held high and announce to the world we are in fact a supreme player.

But this is the work. And I think the trick of it is to not get sucked into the belief that conformity is the path to belonging. This is the time to stand firm in that which we really are, no matter how unpopular and alone we feel with it. Because if we boldly march forward to our own unique freaky beat, confident that the gifts that are ours will shine through, surely the time will come when someone recognizes these gifts and announces…….

I choose you.

And it will be bliss.

~Cynthia