Who Am I? What Am I? Who Are You?

Many people do not know who I am or what my background is but I think it is important that I tell you and I will explain why. This is a kind of lesson in forgiveness and love. My life story is online in so many capacities it is crazy. I have been called an obsessive compulsive, bi-polar, high school drop out, among hundreds of other things. I have never disagreed with any of these words as every one of them is true. People go through their lives hiding who they are from society because they are worried what the world will think of them. As they try to hide their issues it becomes evident on their faces that they are not happy, how could they be? When they are constantly hiding from themselves and the people around them. It must feel like being a fugitive.

I like to refer to the movie 8 Mile staring Marshal Mathers when making this comparison. The character named Rabbit was a rapper. He was very poor, he lived in a trailer park, he had no father, he was mostly jobless, he could not hold a relationship, he was persecuted for all of this by the people around him and during the entire movie he tried to hide it from everyone. He would do rapping competitions on Weekend evenings where he would do a competition called "Freestyling". A freestyle battle is a contest in which two or more rappers compete or battle each other using freestyle rap. Each competitor's goal is to 'diss' their opponent through clever lyrics. Each rapper is giving a set among of time to rap against music being played in the background by a Disc Jokey.

Rabbit attend these battle every weekend and tried hard to hide who he was. He never could win or even make it through a battle until he became very clever. In a final battle against the best rapper there Rabbit, knowing the guy was going to use all of his terrible past against him, rapped about his faults first. Once he told the audience who he was he effectively took the power from the judgmental enemies and used it to prove not only he was honest and forthcoming but worthy of respect and forgiveness. The same kind of stuff the bible says.

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At some point in your life it is important to not only recognize who you are and the things that you endured in your lifetime. Hiding it from the world will only allow them to create their own, skewed, judgmental and purely evil views of you. If you say "This is who I am and look how I have changed my life for the better by recognizing it!" it will not allow the people around you to sit and chat about who and what you are. Once light is exposed to something shadows no longer lurk. I have gone through many things in my life that make up the person I am. I have carried many heavy crosses and was dealt my fair share of hardship but not for one second will I hide that from the world or allow them to pass judgement on me. I will wear it on my sleeve and when the world will have to recognize me for who I am, the true me, how much I went through and how I was able to endure and come out on top.

If everyone that knew me wrote down everything they thought I am I would need a name tag printed on an infinite banner. By the time the millions of persona views people have of me are wrapped around me I will still be me, 1, myself. Do not let your fear of what people think of you are scare you into hiding from who you are. State it loud and clear and let the world know from your mouth who you are. Picture yourself as a painting of flowers and each flower is a name. When someone tries to name one of your flowers exclaim loudly, I am not the flower I am the entire painting.

For those who sit and pass judgement on people, put a mirror in front of your own face...I am sure demons of equal, or worse, to those you cast out are staring you right back in the face.

Forgiveness and Love... What a novel idea?