I know someone you don't always believe in; someone who deserves it.
Someone with amazingness built in, someone rarer than four leaf clovers,
and twice as exciting. Someone you have abandoned a thousand times during
dark days, despite all the evidence of great value radiating from the heart
of this creature.
That someone is you.
Of course you are faithful during the good times, I know that. It's in the dark times when you need to show support; and these are the times you are most apt to take off running, labelling your self a muddler or a goofball or worse.
This abandonment in crisis is a mistake; it's precisely when situations have hard rocks inside them that your best efforts are needed. Now is the time you need to remind your self of your infinite capacities and colors. Now is the time to believe in your self and what it can be, what it can do, what it can know. If at some moment you are competely caught up in self-dislike, you may have to borrow a friend to remind yourself of your value. Do it. That's what friends are for.
Next week, you can return the favor.
This is a generous university in which we are enrolled; mistakes are allowed. You are even allowed to flunk courses, we all do. What happens is simply that you take the courses again, this time watching out for the potholes. Eventually you pass, we all do.
In the meantime, be kindhearted about your frailties and stumblings. We're all like children in one respect; we respond more to tenderness than to abrasion. When you drop a brick on your own feet, say ouch and learn to laugh about it.
The reason why it pays to remain loyal to your self is that your self is dazzling. No matter what things look like at 3 a.m. in the morning, there is much, much more to you than your container; more than you see, more than you can even guess about.
The human beings who inspire us, who we remember from one century to the next, are invariably the ones who caught hold of their own inner spirit and let it swing them into giant arcs of movement, imagination and faith. They remained loyal to their inner Self, and it took them for a wild and riveting ride.
We don't remember the folks who only grumble.
So when the rain splashes onto your face and you slip into a funk; be loyal.
You're worth it.
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