The American Dream..gone wrong

My friend, coach and mentor, Jenny wrote a post on her blog about The American Dream.  Jenny and I are on a similar journey–she calls it “peeling back the layers” and I call it “removing the mask”.  In the end, we are talking about the same thing–expressing our Divine Uniqueness.  Thank you, Jenny for being YOU and teaching me how to play.

Here are my thoughts in response to her entry:

News flash:  WHO YOU ARE is MORE THAN ENOUGH.

Where did we go wrong? As I sat down to write this morning, I was struck by the cliche, “we are the typical American family.”  In my head, the words we’re screaming, “WHAT DOES THAT MEAN AND WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO BE?”

There’s a boarding school in the Northeast with the slogan, “In a world that wants you to fit in, we teach you to stand out.”  I know what they are trying to get across, but in our culture, “standing out” is all about the list of accomplishments: house, job, trophy wife/rich husband, degrees, cars, etc. 

Now I am beginning to understand why I have always been attracted to people who are “real.”  Standing out, to me, means being and living the unique expression of God/dess that is YOU.  If the Creator wanted clones, exact replicas, why didn’t S/He create nothing but trees??   As we look at the diversity of life in our world, why do we still choose to be like everyone else? The tulip doesn’t try to be a rose, the dog doesn’t try to be frog.  Why then, do we insist on being like the Jones when that choice is crushing our spirits?

That choice of trying to be like everyone else almost cost me my life.  And although living my truth in the past has been difficult, I intend now that life is actually easier when I embrace and express my uniqueness.

Will you join me?  Come out and play as YOU.  At this party, no masks are allowed.

Rockin’ in paradise….

The Resident Diva