Heidi’s Happiness
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere,
doing something else, being someone else.
Isaac Asimov
I have to thank my Mother for instilling in me the importance of grammar and spelling. It helped me in my 35 year career of Administrative/Executive Assistant. Without this knowledge I would not have been able to be as successful.
With this in mind, and in this day and age, grammar and spelling have found a new life. I believe our language is becoming something new and I am finding that I was I fighting it. Every time I saw someone use the word your “incorrectly” it drove me nuts. I would silently chastise the person and correct it in my head.
What occurred to me is that I was keeping myself imprisoned in the belief of things being only one way. When the English language was being developed, someone (or a group of people) decided that your was not the same as you’re (stay with me here). What if, originally, your stood for both ways? What if, everyone agreed with this? This thought in itself has released me from my own prison. I no longer cause angst within myself when I see your used whichever way the person uses it.
I had a client this morning that we were discussing this very topic of beliefs. I was encouraging her to look at those beliefs that were handed down to her from adults and to look at which ones align with her true self and which ones don’t. What belief’s are keeping you imprisoned? What ways can you let yourself be released and free?
