Wanting to be liked

We spend an awful lot of time trying to be the type of person that pleases other people. We all want to be liked, we all want to be loved, but sometimes it's important to have a look at who we want to be liked by and what we are doing in order to secure that affection.

Doing good, being kind, using manners, speaking clearly and truthfully - they are virtues to aspire to, but not for the sake of being liked. When we act in ways that are in alignment with our highest selves, we automatically attract high and good things - and good people. It's when we are busy trying to be cool, haughty, indifferent, above it all, when we are busy trying to escape feeling anything negative through denial, that's when we end up bending like preztels to be liked by all the wrong people (and of course they never like us enough!).

The only way you will ever be liked for who you really is when you ARE who you really are. Bending like a pretzel is not who you really are - that's you trying to be something else so someone will like you. You have to be you, dwell in God within you, and make peace with Who You Really Are.

And then life is like poetry in motion. You move and swirl and act in a consciousness that is true to thine own self.

There is nothing more beautiful, nothing more imminently likable than that.

Blessings.
- Darshan

© 2009 Darshan F Jessop