BEING ME IS HARD

BE LIKE ME

Of the basics of life that I have learnt to appropriate into my life is the sinking truth that man cannot deceive himself. I do not lie that when I see a beautiful belle, I do not wish to have her. When I see a guy do well with a musical instrument, I wish I could do better, when I see a young lady make music emotional with the dexterity that flows spontaneously from her voice, I just wish I could. Sometimes I wish I could, for long hours like some pastors and 'men of God' profess, pray endlessly.

Someone walked up to me one day and muttered from her heart; 'Asirvo, I really wish to be like you'. I didn’t blush like some of us will. Though those words did hit the right note in the melodies of my heart, create a sort of symphonic cadence. But, my heart also muttered something different. It was like: 'Who told you that I have never wished to be like you?’
Most of the times in our lives, we weary ourselves wishing to become like the other person that wishes to be like us. Such dramatic irony is what makes life dazzling.

Yes! There are people that I envy. I wish to be like the guy next door who seems to have enchanted life; who seems to control everything by just his gaze. Yet, I have learnt something of life that if I do not take my eyes of all that I see, I will end up becoming the realities of others and a shadow of my true self. I will end up becoming a burlesque of the man God patterned and intended. If we all remain at that tent of, ‘I wish I was him or her’, we will only end up hurting ourselves, for I have not seen a man who succeeded in perfectly being like another. No!

The truest joy we can have is when we can reach a point where we will understand that the best that we can be is the best of us.

We all must come to that place of enlightenment where we can look deep into our being and find that virtue that we can harness, explore and at the long-run make our name out of it. It is with this virtue when properly pruned that we can walk into life and draw the attention we need. It is in finding this virtue, this gift that we can be lazy, yet intelligent and highly rewarded. 'lazy?', yes! For when you find that true you, you will do it as though you were lazy, for that's your true place of passion.

Never in your life should you reach a point where you act like someone or live your life trying to be like such, for in doing so you kill that true you and thus ending up to become a lesser of the person you imitate.