I am still in owe with myself for braving to be an exhibitor at the autism show. This is no small feat. It’s major for me. I cannot hide or deny my anxieties. However, I have turned a corner in my life which is fundamental, I will enjoy the process and I will make the most of it as much as I can.
“Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don’t waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
I have always been motivated by reading great stuff. After a great read, I usually would have a selection of favourite passages, which then I’d turn into favourite quotes for specific occasions. If you ever worked with me, in Brazil or in the UK, you’d have seen at least one quote on my office’s wall. I always had a particular quote for each phase I’d be going through in my life. While I work on translating the tangram method to Portuguese, draft the outline of the second book of the tangram series, and get ready for the autism show, I have many times gone back to my most fundamental quotes. I managed to go as far back as to the Little Prince’s quotes I loved so much in my teens. I think I could actually quote the whole book by heart, if I remember it right. Invariably, it’s Clarissa Pinkola Estes that brings light to the moments when the visceral fears stop me from creating. Followed by Brene Brown, when what stops me is the fear of being seen.
“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”
― Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
So…
I am getting ready to be seen.