Life Lessons

It always amazes me how life seems to present us with the same lessons over and over again in different forms until we really get it. Speaking your needs is one of those life lessons. It is an important part of living intentionally--if we don't speak our needs we don't let people see our authentic self. A friend of mine is learning this lesson--first he learned how to speak his needs with his family--how to stand up for himself and be genuine in how he lived his life. Then he had to learn how to do it with his boss in his workplace how to speak up when he needed more time for a project of more help with an assignment. And recently we were talking because the same lesson came to him with one of his friends. Here he thought he had learned the lesson--he had figured out how to speak his needs and live genuinely and then he noticed he wasn't doing that with some of his friends--he was hiding himself because he was scared of sharing his needs. "Wow he said to me--isn't it amazing that the same lessons come to us in a variety of different costumes" So true. It is our responsibility to keep an eye our for those costumes/situations and embrace the lessons they give us.