Are We Not Just Dust?

I have a novel idea. Let me share it with you:

Perhaps, just maybe, you’re not a fraud. You’re actually pretty cool and you have a vision… even if you lack the skills to realize it yet. You can build those skills, though. It just takes practice and consistency.

Well, won’t they expect me to be perfect from the beginning? Shouldn’t I only share the good parts? Aren’t I too shameful to be shared?

Hide me. Hide me.HIDE ME.

Hide me so that they will not see the flaws, the pain, the scars. The hurt of being unwanted, unloved, undesirable. I am too much. I’m not enough.

Wait… who told you that you aren’t enough?

Who told me? Who… told me that I’m not enough. Well, I thought that came from me? Isn’t that what they say? You are your own worst enemy?

I’ll let you in on a little secret: NO. Those thoughts are not your own. They were learned, they were taught. They can be changed. What’s the opposite of worthless?

Valuable. I am valuable. I am loved. I am wanted. I am desirable. I am kind. I am delicate. I am strong. I am exactly enough, no more or less. Who am I?

I am not a name, a number, an address, a pretty face, a broken doll, or the thoughts inside my head. I am made of dust. So is everyone else. So where does that leave us?

We are all the same. We are enough. What we have learned was taught. It can be changed. What’s the opposite of dust?

Cleanliness? No. Nothingness? Wrong again.

You are not an object or a material thing to be tossed aside. You are made of matter but you are not matter. You are an essence, a soul. Similar to those before you, you may struggle to exist. You do exist, though. Feel your hair, your face, your heartbeat, your warmth.

You are a flame. The essence of life is sensation. You feel, so you are. Believe.

Believe. Don’t make it. Be it. Be alive. Be strong. Be brave. Have courage and faith.

Because when you believe in yourself and take the first step to extend your hand out to someone else…

They also start to see that they aren’t just dust. That we are the same. That honestly, being me is not so bad. I have a vision, and I don’t have the skills to see it through yet, but I can learn them. So can you. You’re not so bad.