“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Elliot
this is one of my favorite quotes. He reminds me that we are never finished developing into who we want to be. Who we are becoming is a constantly changing and developing piece. We are always growing, changing, and becoming more and more of who we are.
Were reading about how Michelangelo talked about his creating a sculpture. He said that he looked at the rock, decided what was in it, then chipped everything else away. In other words, he was looking to see what the rock was supposed to be. That’s what we do. We are constantly seeking to find what we are supposed to be. Then our job is to get rid of everything else.
We grow up becoming who others want us to be. Then one day we look around, realize that the path we have been on has not been ours, and we have to make a decision. We have to decide whether we will continue following someone else’s path or whether we will start our own path. Sometimes, people decide that it’s too late in life to change paths. Too bad. When we realize that we were on the wrong path, then we have a chance to take the right path.
Sometimes, we just know that were not on the right path, but we don’t know what the right path is. That’s when we have to get rid of the things that are in our way of discovering a new path. That’s when we have to chip away all that doesn’t belong.
Once we do that, our path becomes much more clear. In fact, what we discover is that fear has kept us off the right path. Fear has kept us from doing and being who we want to be and what we want to do.
Until we face that fact, we keep ourselves from being who we could be. More importantly, we keep ourselves from the being who we want to be. Perhaps, we even keep ourselves from being who we should be.
It’s never too late to be what you might have been. Decide if you are on the path you want to be on, or if it’s time to change paths.