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Choose Yourself (Poem)

Knowing yourself

is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

Choose Yourself

Would it not be delicious
To walk the earth
Free-er, simpler, differently

Not weighed down
By the peculiar appetites
Of others

Often impenetrable
And unconstrained
As if we’re constantly in training

But it is a choice we make
Or do not make
Consciously or unconsciously

To remain hitched
To old ways of thinking, acting
Walking ancient paths

Allowing others to hold us
By leash to their whims
While neglecting our own desires

Choosing to fly free
A simple no
A single step over lines drawn

Push back against the norm
Allow the wind
To unfurl your wings

Live your life
You only have one
Probably

In any case
Change is the choice
We make, or we do not

©Copyright 2021 Martina Green McGowan, MD

This is written as a followup to last week’s post about simplifying life, and fresh, new choices for the future…

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Martina

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