“It is never to late to be the person you were always meant to be.” – George Eliot, 19th Century Novelist
George Eliot
This is one of my favorite quotes of all time. In just 15 words Ms. Eliot has said all that needs to be said about the subject.
But, being a writer, I’ll add something of my own, which you already expected didn’t you?
From Wikipedia: Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name, George Eliot, was an English novelist, one of the leading writers of the Victorian Era. Her novels are well known for their realism and psychological insight and the sentence quoted above is no exception.
And now, some further thoughts of my own, inspired by her writing.
For myself, I am not comfortable in my own skin when I pretend to be a victim, a slave or to be weaker than I know I am. I also know that ultimately I am responsible for whatever condition I am in – good or bad.
I also have a high certainty that the decision, “not to be” is not an option. There is only one workable decision, that is: to be – as being robotically or hypnotically motivated only by someone else’s dictates, desires, or demands on my time and attention equates to no life at all.
The “re-cognition” is that I want to be . . . and I want to be me. It’s who I really am anyway, so it’s as simple as it is powerful.
And I believe it’s the same for you.
As long as you are being yourself – not some artificial façade – actively involved in the essence of life and living, following your goals, making your own decisions and choices, running your life according to your own dictates and desires, you have a chance to make it what you’ve always wanted and what others have wanted for you.
Once unfettered by limitations of pretended powerlessness; free of self-generated considerations of self-abnegation and self-denial; stripped of the limitations of a pretentiousness and social veneer – all that remains is what is really important . . . the real you.
Unbelievable riches of insight and awareness, of friendships and relationships, and a wealth of expansion and wisdom are waiting for you – as long as you wake up and remember who is really running the show.
It really is never too late to be who you really are and who you were always meant to be.
daniel w. jacobs
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