(#5922) I strive for authenticity

      Even when I am not the best of me I still want to be. There is no intent to be something other than the best I can produce of myself. The not easy thing about all of this though is that to be authentic I need to know who I am. Not some caricature of someone I want to be but who I am and all of that. I will say that it does take time to figure that out but time is something we allocate to ourselves when needed. So once arrived at our own conclusions about who we are it is then our opportunity to present that person to the world as a reflection of our existence. It is not easy being your authentic self but easy is not what our current life is all about. For now it is the hard in life that gets us to a place where we can at least find peace.
     I want to be clear about this next part. I am referring to attraction and what it is in our world. Not the type of attraction that has relationship components attached to it. But attraction in the sense that we see someone who is not like us but is unique in their way. A sense of admiration for their unusualness. Those types of people are my type of people. They are not conformists to traits and adherences that delineate out of compliance. They instead embrace their version of themselves that is core to their sense of time and space. I can voice one rule to life that is universal in it's three little words. Do no harm. John Stuart Mill, nonetheless understood that although the complexities of life are abundant, aligning in life is simple.
     In my life I have absorbed the do no harm concept as life itself. However, I know that survival, at times, requires us to partially put away civility and destroy barbarism. That is authentic as well. Yet the authenticity I am writing about is our own personal quest of seeking within ourselves the answers to our personage. A quick note here, I am in my older years but I know that I am still evolving. We are not set in our ways of knowing and understanding within any time limit. The beauty of life is our care for it and our own realizations about what is of value and what is just marking time. We are the stewards of life in this existence so how we see ourselves as those stewards and what we do with our stewardship should be purposeful and worthy of us being true to ourselves.