Get off the Titanic!
A post on the tracker site today has spurred me to post a quick analogy that I think many of you may find familiar. Let me start by saying that in my lifetime, I want to be a good role model for young women (and young men if applicable) and make a difference in their life by leading by good example. Over the recent years, I have paid close attention to how women, including myself, really are. How they relate to those they know and more importantly, how they relate to other women they do not know. I have found that when you really pay attention, you find that a MOST women are self-conscious in some way or another and in different concentrations. Here I was growing up being VERY self-conscious and thinking I was all alone and abnormal for not being totally comfortable interacting with others only to find out that we ARE all in the SAME boat!
In fact, there are so many of us on the self-conscious Titanic, that it's sinking! What we MUST do, is realize we are all in this together and plan our escape!! Those lifeboats (confidence, self-confidence, self-assuredness, and empowerment) are out there waiting to rescue us!! We MUST stop wasting time every day being self-conscious and close-minded to each other and reach out! If we don't, we are all part of a sinking ship that is going under further each day!
I PROMISE you, if you reach out to someone you don't know or you THINK will not be a good friend, you will be SURPRISED! Most of time time, that person feels EXACTLY the same way about you and is nothing like you thought. In doing this, your self-confidence and self-worth grows and you grow as a person. I hate to see women passing each other "rudely" or like it's some kind of bitch competition. That's the cold hard truth — we need to change things and change how most of us act. I have been guilty of this, too, but have been working to better myself for a while! I had to realize that other women are not my enemy, I was just self-conscious and I had to realize the problem was me, in order to grow. So, today, when you pass that woman you don't know but always try to avoid eye contact with, feel that self-confidence rising and tell her to have a WONDERFUL day!! You'll see what I mean!
In fact, there are so many of us on the self-conscious Titanic, that it's sinking! What we MUST do, is realize we are all in this together and plan our escape!! Those lifeboats (confidence, self-confidence, self-assuredness, and empowerment) are out there waiting to rescue us!! We MUST stop wasting time every day being self-conscious and close-minded to each other and reach out! If we don't, we are all part of a sinking ship that is going under further each day!
I PROMISE you, if you reach out to someone you don't know or you THINK will not be a good friend, you will be SURPRISED! Most of time time, that person feels EXACTLY the same way about you and is nothing like you thought. In doing this, your self-confidence and self-worth grows and you grow as a person. I hate to see women passing each other "rudely" or like it's some kind of bitch competition. That's the cold hard truth — we need to change things and change how most of us act. I have been guilty of this, too, but have been working to better myself for a while! I had to realize that other women are not my enemy, I was just self-conscious and I had to realize the problem was me, in order to grow. So, today, when you pass that woman you don't know but always try to avoid eye contact with, feel that self-confidence rising and tell her to have a WONDERFUL day!! You'll see what I mean!
posted by MaegenW at 8:40 AM
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