You Are the Mature Planned by Them

Deciding who you are is difficult.

Let's look at those LISTS again.

On a NEW PIECE OF PAPER: WRITE all the WORDS and PHRASES from your lists THAT YOU LIKE about you.

NOW HAVE FUN: turn all these WORDS INTO SENTENCES.

Start writing SENTENCES ABOUT YOU from the "Good Stuff" lists.

NOTE: despite what your parents told you, you are NOT YOUR WORKING JOB.

This is true to the same extent that you are a "not a man or woman," YOU ARE A PERSON.

We can't ignore that we are a girl or boy and we can't ignore our job, but that is not WHO WE ARE.

Maturity means that you are capable of performing ANY JOB and still being who you are.

Buddha Zhen
Patriarch, shaolinZEN.org