WHO ARE YOU?
When I was 5 years old, I was the youngest choir member in my local church. I sang my heart out and loved every bit of it. As I grew up, I joined a choir in every city I lived in. I loved to sing I loved to express myself…Then I became a teenager and people said, steph you are very slim and tall you know you could be a model. As I travelled from place to place, wearing different clothes and designs, I loved it too...However, I could sing as well...I could write and I could organise anything, I could adapt to personalities anywhere.There were many facets of me…There was much more...Most of all I noticed I had made friends from different cultures and backgrounds easily...People simply facinated me. I loved the diffrences, the variety of personalities. This was a sign of my adaptive nature and interest in people.
I loved to watch Whitney Houston. I wanted to sing to the world and dance like Whitney. Her voice and her figure was what attracted me most. It never occurred to me that we were are all unique. I thought I could wiggle as she did. I did not see why not. I could wiggle too, and my voice could sound as sharp as hers. Who knows, I might fit in those sparkly sliver dresses... so I thought. Until the beautiful world thought me that every one is unique in their own way.
These days I look back at those years..those funny years when teenagers ran around wanting to be this or that and I laugh...because the world is so big that all you need to do is look inside you, and you will know what you want to be.Unfortunately there are still some adults in the same situation...they do not know who they are....
I still fit in the silver dresses. I am still tall and slim. I still sing at least, I love Corinne Bailey Rea.. I still write and have modelled for years…but as I grow, certain things become more important… like knowing who I truly am and making the best of myself. I never cease to wonder, about those days when i made up my mind to be like who i 'admired' on TV ha-ha. Now my admiration is loving people and touching lives...there is more depth.
There are 3 different categories of people...those people that rot away simply because they do not truly know what their potentials are…what they are capable of and how to use them for their own good. Oh how deadly ignorance can be.
The second category are those that know their potentials, yet they are stuck in a place that gives them less than what is required to fulfill them...they struggle in their circumstances...my heart goes to these people...how will they survive? I often ask, something tells me they will... they will...
The third are those that have always been fortunate to know who they were from the begining, and followed their hearts...they also have had good mentors and their circumstances allows them, what ever they intend to use their potentials for.
I have come to embrace the fact that everyone is different. We have different roles to play. I liken the world to a stage where everyone has a role…what role are you playing? spectator, a stunt double, the writer, an onlooker or the extra…the truth is that you decide what role you play.
It took years to figure this out, but I am extremely glad I did, I came to realise that everyone is unique for their own good and what makes you different is what makes you great. You are the only one that has the right to be you, just as I am the only one that has the right to be me. When I realised this, I embraced myself and that was the beginning of my true birth.
These days people want to be rich and famous, some people go to different lenghts and as they do this they live the most bit behind.'Themselves' that is when the riches bring pain. It is good to be rich, it is okay to be famous but what will fulfil you as a person is what is most important. We were all born stars, The only problem is, if you do not know who you are, day after day you will continually strive to be someone else.A strive indeed.
Simply understanding that you are great, because you are different, is the beginning of stardom. You have something that no one else has.YOU.