Breaking through the labels

Today I have been blessed.

A friend of mine sent me her novel that she is self publishing and I got to have the most amazing time reading it. Having such a huge smile on my face that eventually my face muscles started hurting.

This reminds me how much being creative and sharing what we do is important. The first time I read that novel, many years ago, I told my friend how much it made me want to write. And it did it again.

The gift to inspire others is one of the most amazing gifts we can give. To be able to touch and light the dormant creative spark in others.

It reminded me that I am more than just words and labels. I have hidden behind labels too often because they give me a frame and a sense of self. A definition. To say I am a healer or a medium doesn't really define who I am as a human being. Those are just labels. I am so much more then that. I seem to always stumble on that knowledge and think it's knew to me. But the fact is I have made that discovery many times and keep forgetting it and keep labeling myself again.

I have hid behind many labels in my life thinking I was a piano player, a harpsichord player, a baroque ensemble player, a writer, a songwriter, a good listener, a coordinator, an assistant to someone in charge.

Those are parts of who I am, but not one of them defines me totally, not even combined.

Limiting oneself to one form of expression is a false statement of who we are. We are huge like oceans, we are universes,

I am more than any label I can stick on my chest. The more I want to narrow down who I am, the more I have to expand the scope of who I am because I am always more than what I think I am.

My head is so full of inspiration right now I think I'll go dig those old novels of mine, those old songs and see what I can do about them to make them shine so they don't have to sit on a dark shelf anymore.

What about you? Do you also define yourself through labels thinking it defines who you are? If so I wish, if it is your desire, that you can break through your labels too and find the real person behind the words. The one that is so immense that no label can start to define you.