You Superstar

Here is a favorite quote of mine from John Lennon:

Who on earth do you think you are?
A superstar?
While right you are!

Everyone is a hero. A hero journeys into the unknown and returns a changed person with a precious gift. So can we all. This journey, whether alone at your desk with your work, across an ocean, or into a marriage, is always the same journey, the journey into your soul.

I cannot tell you who you will meet on your journey, but I can assure that others will tell you not to go, that it might be too dangerous. You say to them, if I do not go, who will? Or you will be told that you should go later, when you are better prepared. You say to them, I cannot prepare for what I cannot see, and no lens will ever be able to show me clearly where I am headed. Or they might say simply, you will fail. And you say to them, I will only fail if I turn back. Either way, it is my choice.

But understand that all the doubters and naysayers are all heroes themselves, asking, in their own ways, if they should start on their journeys. Meet them with love. They are waiting at the door to see if the road is safe. You head off on it. They will not get to see you reach your port, they will not know which paths you took, but they will have seen you leave, and perhaps that will be enough for them to think that they could leave too.

Bill