PRECIOUS

Surround yourself with precious individuals.  Those are the ones who can tell you something about yourself that you didn’t know.  They’re also the ones who will remind you of who you truly are in case you forget.

There are far too many people in our lives that don’t know us, in fact, they don’t see us. They don’t have a clue about who we are.  Tragically, more often than we’d like to admit, they’re our so called ‘significant’ other.  I was married to someone who, after seven years together, bought me pecan pie for my birthday.  I have always hated pecan pie, but it was his favorite.  While a small thing on the surface, it was a perfect metaphor for the fatal flaw in our relationship.

See the problem with surrounding ourselves with people who don’t know us is that they will perpetuate a false impression of who we, not only are, but want to be.  Saddest of all, we will learn to define ourselves by who we are not.

Our environment matters.  Who occupies that environment with us matters.  At some point we must stop refusing to be enlightened to that fact.