Don't put yourself in a box, look outside it

BACKGROUND LEADING UP TO THIS BLOG
You know, I was trying to figure out a username for my blog. And I was trying to define which bird I was like. I’ve always had an affinity to the Eagle and my Boss coincidently nicknamed me Eagle cause it sounds like my name, E.Gill, get it? hah. Then I read the story about the nightingale and the red rose. And I connected with the nightingale. Then my friend mentioned the phoenix, cause it can rise after it’s died. I felt I had to pick one. THE one. I then wrote a poem with this line being what connects to this blog:

“For I am an eagle, a nightingale, a phonenix, and a lark. I need space, I need love, I need light & I need dark” – E.Gill

Here’s the blog. You work it out how it connects for yourself J Peace and Love xox

BLOG ENTRY
I am many things
We are many things
We try and define ourselves in one box when mostly we fit into hundreds of them.
It is nice to figure things out. Understand ourselves and our thoughts. But I find it un-important to define oneself – explicitly.

Though, in saying that, I find calling myself nuts makes me feel better. I find myself relating to different types of birds or animals…But I wonder if this projection is more about intrinsic understanding rather then definition. If we seek to know someone, understand them, rather then define or confine them would they not be so much more beautiful and mysterious. Would we not feel each heart beat they feel? Walk each step they take? See each miracle they see? Rather then assuming we know what they are/how they feel dependent on which box they fit. Walk in someone else’s shoes. Don’t assume you know their size or what they will like. You don’t KNOW. You only think you know. And if you stop to understand, to listen, perhaps you will find more then you ever dreamed. Perhaps you didn’t know. And this is a wonderful thing. For you suddenly see the world from their perspective and what wonderment this brings. For we each are different. We each are new. We each have something to give this world. We each have a song to sing, until we die.

Don’t confine yourself with boxes. Look outside them, see where else you fit. See where you don’t. Look for the gaps. See the potential.

And go for it.

- Love E 7/4/2010