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Perhaps you’re sitting confused in a class, but everyone else is silently listening and taking notes. Should you raise your hand and be that person who just doesn’t get it? Maybe you’re in a meeting at work, thinking of contributing something to the conversation at hand, but you second-guess yourself. Or maybe you’ve just seen the 88 comments on someone’s Facebook timeline wishing them a Happy Birthday and you think the 89th (yours) won’t mean as much since they are apparently already well-loved.
I’ve been in those situations and I retrospectively regret that I didn’t say a word.
That kind of insecurity stems from fear. Fear of inadequacy. Fear of not being liked. Fear that we are not enough just as we are.
Just as a drop of water is a tiny piece of a larger ocean, we are, each of us (and that means you too), a part of Divinity itself. You are whole and complete and magnificent, all by yourself. How could you not be if you are Divinity? Simply being exactly who you are, you are more than enough. You are magnificent.
And if that weren’t fabulous already, it turns out that there were other people in that class who were confused too. And that idea that remained unspoken would have saved countless hours of work. And your relationship with the birthday girl is completely separate from their relationship with anyone else. They can’t get that YOU-ness from anyone other than you.
If you don’t share YOU, who will? Come on! Give us all a piece of you. You truly are crazy beautiful. We’ll be better people for knowing you.
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this is so wonderful….thank you:)
-Jennifer
Naomi,
Love your words and message – but that tiny drop – beautiful capture! Your art is fabulous! Love blooms…
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Thanks, Debbie. 🙂
Lovely post today, Naomi.
Love your colorful drop of water…amazing photography right there.
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I love this post, Naomi — and I love your “crazy beautiful” art that goes with it. I’ve always been someone who speaks up in classroom settings, because that’s my comfort zone. I’m actually very uncomfortable when I try to keep my mouth shut and give other people the chance to speak! But it’s a good kind of discomfort, one that allows me to grow. In other settings — friendships, social encounters — I tend to be shy, to not speak up, to fade away. My comfort zone here is the opposite of that in a classroom. So I am learning to speak up when it is true and right for me to do so, and to keep quiet when that is the true and right choice, no matter how uncomfortable each option may at first feel.
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Naomi, I am so enjoying watching your site mature . . . the link to Etsy is perfect. I’ll be crazy beautiful. I see I will be in good company.
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I have a small post-it next to my studio chair that says “I am enough.” I’m going to replace it with your much larger, more creative and affirmative print. Thank you!
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Picture this: me getting an email from Etsy telling me about your order; me dancing around the house chanting, “I sold some artwork. I sold some artwork!” and my daughter looking at me like I’ve lost it (though smiling). THANK YOU!!
Thanks for that great pep-talk! Very important and helpful!
It’s one of the things about us humans that never fails to amaze me.. we all feel it at times, we all suffer the same insecurities at different times yet believe we are alone.. its this kind of open honesty that helps us all realize that.. Beautiful art.. i love it, thank you 🙂
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So true. I’m so glad you love it. Thank you for visiting!
Lovely. Was in this exact situation last night. Took a three hour Greek cooking class. When it came to the sauce for the souvlaki I was in the dark. I somehow missed a step. Do I ask? Or not? I did in the end. Sure enough the gal two down piped up “I was wondering the same thing.”
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Good for you! It’s such a brave act to voice your thoughts and so reassuring when someone affirms you. I try to assume there’s someone else who wants to say the same thing and I’m helping us both. 🙂