Insecure

Why is insecurity a fact of life? Even if we think we are the most secure person there is, something happens that sheds light on every insecurity that lays dominate within our being. Is it the search for acceptance? But this search is fruitless unless you truly believe what you want to hear. Everyone is searching for the people around them to say the one thing they think will give them the ultimate validation. As if the outside world could ever give our life purpose. Life and the world exists within our own being. Only we can prevent forest fires. So why do we use our firefighting skills to put out the fires in our souls. To deaden our own self worth simply because we don't think it stands up to the person next to us. Maybe it is time to stand next to someone else or if you are truly enlightened, to realize that the person next to you is probably looking at you thinking the same thing.

No one has it together. We are all faking it, sometimes we fake it so well that we fool ourselves. Like the t-shirt I want to make says: "My only talent is in fooling myself." But something always happens that cause things to raise to the surf and all the sudden before you know it there is a beached whale on your proverbial shore. And no matter how many people try to push it back out sometimes the whale suffocates by the weight of your own insecurity.

So we know the poison but do we know the cure? Is insecurity bacterial or viral. I want to believe bacterial but I'm not sure. But maybe insecurity is a good thing because it keeps you striving to better yourself. To push beyond that which holds you down. Maybe insecurity is the fuel for our fire. Because it is important to know how to put out a fire but it is equally important to know how to increase the flame.