Daily Insight: Lesson Learned

We will all be taught a lot of lessons in our lifetime. Some of them will be given by others, for example the “Beyond Scared Straight” lesson that jail isn’t as cool as it seems. And there are those lessons that we give ourselves.

Boy oh boy did I teach myself a lesson these last couple of weeks. I like to think I have a degree in bullshitting or skitting as I like to call it. Hell, I went to Howard University, and told my first job after college I couldn’t start work because I was “studying abroad” all summer, meanwhile I was kicking it HARD. But I digress from the subject here…

The lesson I have learned is you can bullshit a lot of people in your life but you can not bullshit yourself. You may be able to convince everyone around you that you love your job, but when you wake up angry at the world every morning you know that’s not the case. You may be able to convince other people that you have changed the person you are to fit social norms, but when you don’t feel comfortable in your own skin that’s a good indication that you don’t need to change. You may be able to convince yourself that the wiggly feeling is non-existent but when you see that person every time those feelings come rushing back, you can’t suppress that.

I say this to say, yes there will be times when you have to put a smile on your face and skit the world. But how will you ever be able to convey your true self when it counts, if you can’t even be honest with you? Think about it.

-Becks