embrace your true self

" everybody is a genius.  

but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a 

tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

- albert einstein

i read this quote a few weeks ago and it has been haunting me ever since.  

i wish so badly i could convince everyone in the world of this truth.

for some reason, many of us have the belief that we must be just like _____ [fill in the blank: actors? models? whatever your peers seem to like? musicians? whatever your parents told you to be? rocket scientists? quarterbacks?].  whatever or whoever it is that you think you must be is not
necessarily who you are nor who you were meant to be.

just think, what if rosa parks had decided she needed to be something other than herself?

or what if albert einstein listened to his critics who thought he didn't fit the mold of an intellectual?

and what if you, because of your belief that you're not good enough in some way, never live out the extraordinary things you were born to do in this life?

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it is my sincerest hope that we can all embrace our unique gifts, abilities, and life paths,

regardless of what anyone else {especially our inner critic} has to say about it.