CHARACTER

Just sort of thinking out loud...most minutes of our day to day, we stumble across quite a cast of characters.

My question...how do we let these characters affect our actions, thoughts, lives?  Are you really living your own production?

These characters and all of their brilliant qualities, can seem...overwhelming.  Particularly if you lose your "balance".  I'm not sure about you, but sometimes I seriously feel like I'm living in a drama series.  This friend with that boyfriend issue, that friend who's unemployed, this one who's car got towed, wait until you hear about his one with her ex husband who just found out about his other 8 wives....   And then of course, there's family.   Which by default we're part of the production, and feel this loving itch to help/fix/solve it all.  

It's intense.
Rather than muster up the energy to move past it all, we endure.  Which I've come to finally realize consumes more energy than just turning a blind cheek.

The other thing you may struggle with, as you navigate your own personal cast of characters is the fact that it's pure ENJOYMENT!  So you keep coming back for more.  It's almost fun to get to know the different versions of people out there.  And that's totally a warranted frame of mind...IF...and only if, you remember yourself.  Have that clear definition of yourself handy at all times so that you don't get caught up in the wrong drama series.

Overcome the magnetic pull!

Whatever the interest, find interest in yourself first.  Find true knowledge of who you are, what you stand for, and what you're here to do....retain that knowledge through every single "production" you encounter.  In other words, own your own CHARACTER!  Stand strong in it, and don't let any other forces sway you.  This "swaying" is doubt.  The only way to overcome doubt is knowledge.  Always, always, always know who you are!

Find beauty in the breakdown...