There’s something important I need to say, about
me, but, I have to say it because it may be about you too. If your anything like me, then you will feel
this sometimes.
I was always a shy kid, didn’t make friends
easily, I was always friendly, but, making friends didn’t happen naturally like
it did for others? My friends at school
were all the kids that no-one wanted to be friends with, multi-cultural kids or
the quiet thinking book worm ones.
I wasn’t shouty, dramatist, uniquely clever
or dull – just going through the motions, hating all sport! I loved books, but in school, ‘War of the
Roses’ at 9? Seriously? I always felt I
was the observer, watching everything play out around me. I guess I was quite serious and thoughtful; like
I was born adult.
Forward 50 years, still the same! I can see
now, why I’m good at listening, why I have the patience, others wouldn’t have,
why I can give my undivided attention to someone 100% - that comes easy to me,
in fact I’ve been doing it all my life as the listener.
Here’s where it gets difficult, they say in
marketing, to be yourself, which is kind of missing the first hurdle? Because I’m
not talky talky, I’m more listen y listen y and I’m saying this, cos you may
feel it too. In every group there’s the
mad one, the crazy one, the serious one, the drama queen, the feeling one, and the
quiet one.
That’s not to say I don’t have a wicked
sense of humor, I love laughing, and, if I can say so myself, be very funny as
my ‘timing’ is usually perfect, it’s the ‘way’ you tell ‘em! I was born expressing, music, lyrics,
singing, writing, feeling, growing.
And that’s all I can be, myself, that’s all
I want to be, myself, the deep thinker, the philosopher, the woman who paints ‘whatever’
with her heart, creates whatever, with all she has, puts into each and
everything the best she can.
I don’t believe in doing anything half
measures, I have a strict ‘observer’ observing me, I’m the one who can replay
conversations days later, untangling them almost like I have a replay button! Yeah
I know weird right? But true. I work at
seeing links that stick in my mind, that tease me, so that I have to gently approach
them and, while they’re not looking, cajole them out, like a kitten hiding
under the step, to bring them out, to untangle them, look at them.
Then they show themselves, and eureka it’s
a breakthrough, a moment of realization, that you cannot ‘put off’ otherwise it
will fly away, if you do. No, you have
to take the tail now! And run with it, that is the only way of catching it
I guess that’s one of my failings, attempting
to re-create the wheel, but it has to be worth doing well in my life, otherwise
I don’t see the point. So, yeah
sometimes I feel like the dreamer, but that’s who I am. In a medieval world I would be the astrologer,
the philosopher, and the bard – either that or I’d be living on a hilltop. Some things never change?
I’ve connected spiritually in many ways. It’s that
question, if your listening to your mind, who is it that is answering? That’s
not to say, I’d tell you, well you may as well leave him now, because it’s your
journey not mine, and you cannot ‘force’ others to grow. Their journey should
be their own.
I guess I see using these ‘gifts’ like being
told truths, without having to experience it? It won’t mean anything, like
taking mind altering drugs to open neural pathways, you’re really not prepared
for.
Yes of course this is about me, but I felt
it was important, because some of you would really relate to it…
Some thinker musings…
Who am I? I'm Sally Hope Woodroffe a
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