Follow Your Own Vision

Whose vision are you following?

Deep in our hearts we may know we are or who we truly want to be but for various reasons (i.e. limited self belief, fear, lack of confidence), we lose sight of the vision of ourselves and follow someone elses vision – whether our parents, peers or employers.

Here’s a little story I wrote earlier this year, which I hope will give you food for thought – and get you thinking about your life and your own vision.

She yearned to be an artist

She wore black, because her mother told her it made a woman look slimmer.

Since she was a child, she’d had a desire to be an artist.  To paint, to sew, to write, to make all manner of things.  To live a creative life.  But…..life got in the way…..plus her parents always told her that being ‘arty farty’ was for dreamers.  Real people worked in shops and banks or joined the civil service.  So, she had gotten herself a job in the bank…….

She worked late every day and sometimes over the weekend, because she was a good employee and hey, someone told her that was the way to get noticed and rewarded, maybe, with a hefty pay rise or promotion. But secretly, she yearned to be an artist.

She wore black because her mother  and her husband, told her it made a woman look slimmer.  

Today, she celebrates her birthday………she retired ages ago.  

She still wears black, because a long time ago someone (she can’t remember who, perhaps it was her mother, and, oh yes, her ex husband) told her that black made you look slimmer.  

She still yearns to be an artist…..perhaps it is too late now…… isn’t it?

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” ~ Carl Jung