As a great lot of us do, I was trawling through Facebook the other day and one of my FB friends had posted a link to one of those “try this and see what it says” kind of things.
As a curious fellow – and with my search for self improvement never ending – I gave it a go. I can’t recall the name of the link but it involved looking at what was ostensibly a word puzzle. Many letters set out in a square that ay forst glance made absolutely no sense.
The link said to look at the ‘puzzle’ and take note of the first 3 colours you saw and these would reveal my core traits.
Now I’m not a psychologist so can’t delve too deeply into whether or not the colours – or the combination thereof – meant anything specific. The 3 colours I saw were green, violet and white. After I had finished doing this, the link said that “your unvoiced anger is the most dangerous.” That made me think a lot about how I have had a tendency throughout my life to internalise things and stew on them instead of facing them head on and getting through whatever issue or problem I was facing. Basically I was afraid to face what may come of it.
Then there was the following descriptive summation of me:
“Greg has a fighting spirit and a heart bigger than the universe. He smiles, even when he’s hurting inside. He is stronger than anyone knows because he has faced more than you can imagine. Greg is loyal and selfless, but he has no time for fake friends, he just spends time with people who are real and down to earth. He isn’t angry often, but when he is – RUN!”
As is my wont, I read this a number of times and reflected on the words in it. I came to the conclusion that it sums me up PERFECTLY! It also made me realise that I had to change some of my ways, such as not being afraid to speak up for myself, but at the same time doing so respectfully – both towards myself and to others. I now have a greater sense of ME and my strengths, I have not a renewed confidence in myself but a new FOUND confidence and I am realising that there is NOTHING I CAN’T DO and there is NOTHING harder than anything I haven’t already been through.
I know I am far from the finished article – never too old to learn and all that stuff – but I am much more appreciative of myself and who and how I am, and I am getting so much better at showing my true self to the world. This makes me so much happier, and less inclined to do or say anything that will make YOU run!
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