don't limit your YOU

Sometimes people become hyperfocused on one aspect, characteristic, attribute and choose to define themself by that aspect...whether it's their profession, their degrees, their race, their sexuality...and then they choose to create an identity only around that one thing...

I think it's important to create/find be your YOU, but don't limit your YOU...allow your YOU to flourish.

For the sake of humanity, I feel that is not fair!  I think trying to find out who we are is so difficult because we are trying to define ourselves by someTHING instead of something(s).  I think if we are able to truly see ourselves for the variety of talents that we hold...and society values the diversity of 'us'....figuring out me...wouldn't be so hard.

I've got a lot of dreams.  A lot of people and more often than not; myself telling me I can't do or won't do...but I want to!!  I want to create my own television show (like Madd TV or Saturday Night Live) that uses skits from my own realities as a teacher/counselor in education.  (Of course all names will be changed.) I want to be on the label of a natural hair product because I'm so in love with natural hair.  I want to teach and reach young people...I want to educate, to motivate, to sing...oh snap, can't sing.  I want to travel and meet and speak with people, I want to do so much, but feel so contained by a reality that was given to me instead of the reality that I should have created... 

Does anyone else feel like this...?

Watching Madd Men...I know you've seen it...I think about women who for years settled and hid their personal professional and personal desires to "fit in."  I think about other marginalized groups who lived on the fringes and are just now scooting their way on to the "mainstage."   So many people were trained to smother themselves.  Can we ever get out of the habit...?

I don't want to just be, I want to BE.