I Contain Multitudes

AA wrote: How Beautiful and refreshing, I loved it!!! thanks for sharing my dear sis....please surprise me with a visit to Chile ...:-))

 BB wrote: Yes!! One of the big question marks in my life about myself so often ever since I stopped being a child: why did I feel like this then, why do I feel like something else now.
I love your reflection pieces, I like that you put out thoughts that I had or have, but never actually follow up on, or at least rarely, because my life is so full. Thank you, and be happy!


I Contain Multitudes

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself.

I am large, I contain multitudes 

                                  Walt Whitman: Song of Myself

 We’re sometimes disappointed when people around us don’t act coherently. Well, do we ourselves do that all the time..? Of course not. 

We are an ever-changing system of feelings, thoughts, and ideas. Millions of cells in our bodies die every second, and are replaced by new ones. Our environment, that strongly influences us, changes the same way, all the time. How can anybody believe to be the same person you were a year ago, let alone as a child?

So let’s allow ourselves to contradict ourselves! Let’s have all the different, old an new aspects of ourselves enter the scene and make statements, choices, and actions according to what feels best right now. Let’s enter each situation with “a beginner’s mind” and surprise each other by behaving according to what we feel and need, and not to what may be expected of us. We are large, we contain multitudes!