To thine own self be true...

I have been thinking a lot recently about how easily we get caught up in the trap of letting the opinions of other people in our lives affect our opinions of ourselves and our self-esteem. It's so easy to become miserable, worrying and fretting over the things other people are saying about us and the ways they act toward us.

In the words of Marcus Aurelius:

"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others."

I still have a long way to go, but I have also come a long way in my own life in terms of being comfortable in the knowledge of who I am and what I stand for in life. To that end, I am happy with who I truly am and I seek to share myself and my life with my soulmate and lifetime companion. I will not let the opinions of others - opinions that are more often than not based on very little fact or knowledge of who I really am or what I truly stand for - cause me to think that I am somehow unworthy of the blessings that the Creator/God has sent to me in life.

The Creator/God did not intend for love, joy, miracles, and true happiness to be reserved for a few select people in the Universe. He put all that is here into this Universe for all. It's up to us to connect (or re-connect) with that force, that energy that He so intended to flow through everyone and everything.

I am not only seeking that positive energy, I am experiencing it. I still have "problems" and issues come along in life just like everyone else. The B-I-G difference is that I get through them by knowing what my purpose is in life: to be a loving, supportive man who tries every day to live a life that is honorable and supportive of his soulmate and companion. With that as a "measuring stick," I can stand proud in the knowledge that I am doing what I was sent here to do.

It is my prayer that each of you who read this will consider what I have shared and that it will cause you to think a little harder about what it is you stand for in life and in turn cause you to be a little less sensitive to the opinions of everyone else around you. The opinions of others do not say anything at all about who you are... it only illuminates who they are and how they choose to think and react to things.
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