Dont be Boxed up like the Presents!

How full was YOUR Christmas stocking? Did it contain the presents you had asked for or the ones people thought you would want?
Life is sometimes like that. WE know how we think, the way we can do things, how we feel about things and how we feel, and we like to think that by what we say and how we act and do things, that this will give other people an idea of how we are feeling and the type of person we are.
Unfortunately that doesn't always happen, and people often still think that they know who you are and think that they can sum you up by the impression they have formed of you.  Then because they think they know it all as far as who you are is concerned, they think they know what you should and shouldn't do, who you should and shouldn't see, how you should or shouldn't bring up your children, what job you should or shouldn't do and so on and so forth. Its more that frustrating because here you
are doing the best you can and there are people who think you are this completely different person and treating you like they would that completely different person who is completely different from who you really are.
 Because of the way society still is, even in this so called enlightened 21st century, all to often we
try to fit in with these expectations that people have so that we wont stand out, so we will blend in with what our environment and the people in it expect. We perhaps go to work in jobs that we hate, dress in a way that wont make us stand out, live in little box type houses because that is what we are led to believe will show we are stable dependable non rule breakers that can be relied on not to stir things up and break the rules.
BUT is this who we really are?Would it really bring the world to a standstill if we followed our dreams and went for what WE wanted, lived where WE  WANTED to, did what we felt brought us th happiness and security not what convention dictated. Do we REALLY want to look like everyone else?
So hold on to those dreams of you and don't be afraid to go against the grain. Set your own rules, the rules that allow you to truly be yourself and bring your and the people who live closest to the centre of your heart true happiness and let your reach those dreams, grab hold of them and make the dream a reality x