Insist on yourself. Never imitate. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
This quote seems to be appropriate as I learn this year to reach for my goals. I know I've fallen into imitation at different times in my life. It's not hard to see where others have achieved success and want to follow in their footsteps. One can think, if they can do it that way then so could I. It doesn't always work out.
I watched the movie "The Women" last night and was interested by one of the questions posed to Meg Ryan's character of "What do you want?" In the movie she goes about figuring it out. So I pose this question to myself and say "What do I want?" Perhaps it will be to answer to Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote of insisting on myself and not imitating others.
So if I am to be myself and find what I want, it would be to find my voice, be it in writing or in performing music. I want to be me!
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