226/365 IF YOU CAN'T BE THE BEST, THEN BE "YOU. "
Just as the title goes, if you can't be absolute in the field you choose. Be the amalgamation of all skills, experiences, and errors in your life. That you become "you," the one and only. Even the best can be replaced by the better. But only you can do you in all dimensions of your life.
Then only you can best yourself. In my career, I am not the best fighter, coach, teacher, academic, student, husband, friend, and son. Not the best nor the worst. Within shades of gray are my abilities to fulfill that role. And within that calibration, do I find what makes me unique?.
To be ourselves is to own limitations and have the right to commit mistakes, but to be ourselves means we're responsible for the better-best versions of ourselves, not better than our opponents, not more correct than our spouses, nor to be right over the world.?
If I cannot be the best in what I do, I can be "better" than what I used to do, better than what others expect of me. At least with this, I let go of being right all the time and live a life where I don't have to look behind who's after me or in front of who I have to overtake.?
I simply look within. At this space that I know cannot be replaced. Will I even dare to replace myself with someone else's best?