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Introduce Yourself

Or do you not know where to begin?

By Marissa RojasPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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What does it mean to be whole-heartedly ourselves?

You can say that you have "found yourself," or that you are "uniquely your own," but how do we know what that even is? Everything we’ve absorbed and maintained has been things that we’ve seen, that we’ve heard, that we’ve accepted as ours.

When I sit down and really think okay, WHO THE HECK IS MARISSA, I just think oh I’m this and I’m that because I’ve gone through this and because I’ve seen this happen and heard about this... but who are we before all of those things? Who were we intended to be? We were intended to be whole-hearted.

Do you have that one habit, behavior, or idea that you can’t seem to break? Where did you get the habit, behavior, or idea from? I heard this said to me once, that if you recognize that feeling or specific thing, and trace back directly to the source that it came from, then you have the ability to cut it off. Go to the source, and eliminate it from taking affect. Do you have your hair a certain way, or dress a certain way because of something you’ve seen on the little squares of people's "pretend" lives on Instagram? Do you talk to others and react a certain way because you’ve picked up on how the people around you go about that? Are these learned actions or do you really think you’re acting these out because it’s just "who you are." Let me tell you, that’s not who you are. “That show is really good, it really interest me.” Does it really? Is that something you find joy in, or is that what everyone else is satisfied with in this moment so it just makes sense to engage in it because everyone else is for it? Just because everyone else seems for something doesn’t mean that you’re intended to be for it as well.

What do you long for and desire? The things that you pushed down because people said that they don’t add up and they have no place in this world—you have certain desires in your heart because that’s how you were created. Those desires are meant to be acted upon and lived out. We’re all called to live whole-heartedly, but how can we live such a way when our hearts are filled with pieces from everyone else’s hearts? We say we’ve found ourselves, but all we’ve found is everyone else and LOST ourselves.

The reassuring thing is that our hearts are still our own, which means that we still have them and all of their glory. And even if we’ve given our hearts here and there to things that don’t bring us contentment, they are still ours to get a grip of again. And they’re still good. Our hearts are still treasure. We need to now start to consider them, considering US in its, in OUR entirety. There’s still more for us. We can be genuine. We can introduce ourselves as our real selves.

As someone that doesn’t like horror movies like everyone else because she actually finds them disturbing. A girl who doesn’t know how to contour or do winged liner like all the beauty gurus. Who really likes to give advice but can’t take her own. Has the desire to travel to all these great places but doesn’t have the money to get anywhere. Who is married but still feels lonely sometimes. The girl who’s home isn’t aesthetically pleasing. The someone who is too lazy to go about changing what needs to be fixed.

But I’m the someone who knows there’s more. Who knows my heart isn’t made up of the same things as my neighbors. And wants to hold onto that as tightly as I can.

Hi. I’m Marissa. Nice to meet you too.

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Marissa Rojas

This is the place where the overflow of my thoughts poor out

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