Blog 709 – 08.01.2017
Hard To Fit In

I heard a wonderful quote that could launch a blog, “It is hard to fit in when we we are made to stand out.” So much effort, expense, time, and money are spent on trying to train children, ourselves and others to “fit in” when the real problem is that we were not made to fit in but to be different. “Vive la difference.” As the French say and how could all those French men and women be wrong about that? We should celebrate our differences, our unique contributions to the mix, instead of working to mask it or always striving to line up with everyone else tastes or take on life. There is so much division in the U.S. today regarding President Trump’s tweets and attacks on all who might oppose his policies and positions. Has that not always been the story only differing in degree and the level of absurdity. We have always had press and people who disagree with the President whoever he was. And would have just as certainly if we had, as many hoped, elected a she to be President. If anyone is yet expecting Donald Trump to “fit in” I think that is just as silly as expecting themselves or any one else to “fit in.”

We are each of us a unique and wonderful expression of the Divine and as such have a duty and a responsibility to be not another Donald Trump nor another Albert Eisenstein but the highest and best version of the One and only person we can best be – the particular and special version of God we were made to be. Yes, it is hard, very hard, to try to be something you are not like one of those square pegs trying to fit into a round hole or vice versa. That line always reminds me of the punch line: “I like my vice versus.” Talk about fitting in, but back on topic. The wonderful you that is you will never fit into anyone else’s box (quit smiling, you know what I meant) and quit trying to or letting others try to force you to fit into some mold. Be yourself because that is exactly who you, we, all of us, need to be and when we are we become shining examples, encouraging all we shine upon to love themselves for who they are and to fly their own freak flag proudly.

Try fitting all that into a meme or on a trucker hat.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White