"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
-Oscar Wilde
{Our prompt for photo art Friday is quirky selfie}
Sheesh, it's a full time job just trying to be me, who has time to try and be someone else? Really . . .
I sometimes struggle just to do me very well. You know, we are always our own worst enemy.
And on those days that I don't get in my own way with that mighty brick wall or allow others to put it up for me, I do feel like I could do anything. Okay, well maybe not anything, but certainly a lot.
I thought about just doing something else for today, because after all I went to bed really late last night
and had nothing planned at all and didn't get my 8 hours of beauty sleep or feel like taking a shower first thing when I woke up or washing the mascara off my face because I was too lazy to do it last night.
So, that's when you grab a hat to cover your bed head, and search for the sunglasses that you never wear anymore to cover the dark circles and smeared mascara, and put on some lipstick.
But what do you take your own picture of you doing? Ahhh, yes, doing something you love...looking at and for caterpillars on your milkweed. {They are officially 1 week old today!}
Hi, my name is Kim, and I'm a nature nerd . . . and proud of it! ;)
And because some others have said it better than I, I want to share some random quotes I found:
1. "I think everybody is weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it." - Johnny Depp
Yes Johnny I agree, we all have a weird factor, we should accept that in others as well as ourselves.
2. "Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward." -Nora Roberts
Yep, it's awfully hard to be true to yourself if you are always running faster than yourself. I like patience, and I like slow, and I like quiet.
3. "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
-Steve Jobs
No, I won't be changing the world like Steve Jobs, but if I can change the mind of just one person's attitude
towards nature, turn their fear of something into curiosity, and their curiosity into passion that will then
change another's mind . . . then yes, I believe I can change the world.
4. "I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings." - Mary Oliver
Yes, I want to be alive like the spirit in a child.
5. "Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always 20 times better."
- Margaret Olipahant
In other words, dance to the beat of your own drum, because fashion is way overrated.
In a nut shell . . . weird is good, let's celebrate it! Be patient it's where you will find yourself. We are all just crazy enough and that makes us capable of changing the world . . . the question is "will we?" If you've lost your wings, you've forgotten about the child in you, but when you start dancing to the beat of your own drum you may just find them! And last but not least, looking through rose colored glasses isn't a bad thing, it just depends on what you see on the other side.
May you soar into the weekend! ;)
Love, Kim
Create-with-joy, Random Five Friday
