Who are you?

I thought you’d be the best person to ask, but perhaps not.

We are each many people.  Sometimes the person we appear to be is not the person we really want to be.

Maybe, at some point in the past, we decided to hide away the person we really want to be because of how others reacted or treated us – perhaps not even questioning, just assuming it must have been our fault.

If you listen, though, carefully and kindly, when you’re not in a hurry, you’ll hear this person you want to be.

One of Alan Lightman’s stories about time describes a world in which the buildings are on wheels, powered by engines so people can get to what they have to do faster:

‘No one sits under a tree with a book, no one gazes at the ripples on a pond, no one lies in thick grass in the country.  No one is still.

Why such a fixation on speed?  Because in this world time passes more slowly for people in motion.  This everyone travels at high velocity, to gain time.’*

Whenever we’ve said, “We’ve no time for that,” we have been living in this world.

Whenever we have not allowed ourselves the time to listen to our lives, we have been living in this world.  The best stories can’t be created in a hurry.  Maybe we think, because we’ve been rushing by so many things without noticing, that our best story is lost.

This letting go story is about having time to let the person who is your most enjoyable and true self** emerge.  This will be the you who finds they have the most to give.  Wholeness doesn’t require we receive more, but give more.  We realise what we hold on to is getting in the way of who we are, and when we give, the person we wants to be steps out of hiding.

Who are you?

I’m looking forward to meeting you.

(*From Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams.)
(**Enjoyable to you, first of all, emerging from expression of creativity and generosity.)