On watering cans, procrastination and other things

As I walked around my garden this morning, watering can in hand, I fell into a reflective mood. Something I’ve been doing a lot lately, partly as a consequence of staying up too late reading blogs that inspire and provoke, and partly because I’m avoiding tackling the barely begun doctoral thesis waiting for me on my dining-room table. Procrastination has for ever been my weakness..

My life has certainly been, and continues to be, a journey of discovery. Every experience, whether good or bad, has added a new nuance and facet to the young girl I once was - my idealism and romanticism, tempered by reality, remains an integral part of the essential me. I’ve learnt that arrogance is no substitute for quiet confidence; that independence of thought and identity is an essential component of who I am; that achieving happiness and fulfillment is my responsibility and not someone else’s; that human dignity is an innate right of everyone; that all are deserving of respect and compassion; that my moral compass is mine alone and to accept that others may follow a different one; and, above all that I am a flawed human being like everyone else.

It’s the flaws that make us the incredible beings that we are, complete in ourselves whether alone or accompanied. And it is the flaws that drive and challenge us to achieve, to grow, to love. Of course, not everyone accepts the challenge....

But my watering can is empty and reflections must be put aside for another day. Yet, I cannot help but wonder how others view themselves and whether they too have challenges to face.

So I ask you, my fellow CSs:

Are you happy with who you are?
Are there things you would like to change, to do, to experience?

Or perhaps you’d rather procrastinate and leave such thoughts to another day...