50 for Your Future by Tavis Smiley

Author:Tavis Smiley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2016-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

Have you ever met people who you want more for than they seem to want for themselves?

You can see their gifts, you can see their potential, you can see their talents, but they have yet to fall in love with the possibility of who they could be, or what they could achieve.

For a society hooked on looking at itself in selfies, on Facebook, and in the mirror, it is just amazing what we don’t see.

I encounter so many people who, for a variety of reasons, simply don’t like themselves. I can tell by their body language when I walk up to them. I can hear it in their voices when we speak. I watch how they interact with others, and it’s so apparent. Too many people are not in love with the possibility of what and who they can become. This is especially the case among young people, and it breaks my heart.

We live in a world where people want to be everything except who they already are. In some ways this helps explain the multibillion-dollar fashion, makeup, cosmetic surgery, diet, and workout-fad industries. They’re catering to a culture of people obsessed with transforming themselves into someone or something else.

Just as some people self- medicate through one addiction or another, others self-fabricate new identities as a way to avoid dealing with the reality of who they really are. Some of this springs from the dissatisfaction people have with their physique and/or phenotype— with their physical selves. But really, most of what lies at the core of our inability to fall in love with who we are and who we could possibly become is buried in our inner lives, our belief systems, and false ideas that society pounds into us.

Too many people live with a lack of self-confidence, self-determination, and self-awareness. So much of what keeps people from discovering wiser motivations and empowerments is the intimidation they experience at the hands of others. They’ve allowed themselves to be bullied. Out of who they are. Out of what they could be. People demonize or diminish us, let us know they have only low expectations of us, or force us into an environment starved of the nutrients our souls and spirits need.

We’ve been Jedi mind-tricked into not believing in or recognizing our own possibilities.

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