Dear Daniel Wong Ching Kiong:

Thank you for your kind words.

Following your most recent post, more of reality:

As a child, what the adults in your home think of you is everything. A child doesn’t know who or what he is- it needs parents/ adults to tell him who he is. And when they tell him, the child believes it.

What did they tell you: “stupid… lazy kids, a pig, quite and sometimes just too noisy and annoying”, less than your other cousins who were really famous in the basketball team.

So naturally, you believed what they said, you took it in as the truth. But it wasn’t true, what they said. How do I know? Because you were distressed believing those things. If you truly were those things, you wouldn’t be distressed.

And so, you tried to prove them wrong, to be more than a stupid, lazy, annoying child, to be special, and to be famous like the cousins, more than the cousins… famous so that they will change their minds.

But all along the adults who told you those things didn’t see you for who are. They didn’t SEE you. So you want to show yourself to them, to the world, to “dare to expose myself”

You have the opportunity to do just that, to show who you truly are, every day. Your thoughts, your feelings, this is who you are. Live authentically, be true to yourself: in doing so, you expose who you truly are.

But be prepared: the people who did not see you so far, the adults you grew up with, they are not likely to see you now, or in the future. They can’t or won’t. They are too busy with their own thoughts, own concerns to notice the beautiful child you were. They are not likely to see you now.

But someone will see you. I already have- through your writings here. You have a lot of promise, the promise you were born with. Fame and fortune- I don’t know, low statistical probability, but the passion within you, the desire, the imagination, the motivation… the rebellion against what is not true- I admire those things that you are.

Post anytime, with your thoughts, your feelings… use any practical opportunity in your daily life to live authentically, there is no substitute to authentic living (not even fame and fortune)…

anita