Discovering that your alter ego has been beside you all these years, but that you may have ignored it til now is an incredibly liberating feeling.
Don’t panic though because your alter ego (and I hesitantly borrow Wiki once again for a true meaning of the expression) is a patient thing and won’t have bogged off to pastures new just because they were side-lined.
No. In fact it’s been watching over your endeavours for some time, praying and hoping you’ll take a pathway it knew was better for you but still came along your chosen path anyway, silently pacing a few steps behind and waiting outside when you entered the home of the superb-mask-wearing ultimately unsavoury character.
AE knew you’d come out eventually having seen the light, even if it took some years, and off you’d both shuffle down the path of life, spitting feathers or crying with hurt indignation. You often didn’t stop long enough to sit down and look behind you, where the best person to give you advice was sitting right there. Next time, sit and admire the wildlife a moment… because I can guarantee your AE will have noticed the spider’s web on the gorse while your lovesick self was refreshing your phonescreen convinced another text would come, or had you missed it somehow? Thank you Pugwash for a beautifully timely illustration.
You perhaps felt its presence sometimes, while staring in the mirror wondering wtf you were going to do next.
If you embrace your AE and invite it properly into your life-making decisions, I think you’ll discover a new friend. One who will never let you down because they have no ulterior motive other than your wellbeing. Be more open to their black and white views on life. If AE says about a third person that they are no good as your friend, listen hard and act because you’ve probably been brushing that hint under the carpet for years and maintained a draining one-sided relationship with that ‘friend’ ignoring the fact they bring no positives to your life.
This post was inspired after I read a post by NICCULENT who posted these lovely words yesterday 🌸
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At some point today I shall pen a post about the most AMAZING self-publishing conference I attended yesterday in Leicestershire 👌🏼
But first I have two trees to tend ⛩⛩
I’m so glad that my post triggered something positive,I loved your take on this and I plan on writing more about alter egos on my blog.Love your blog,keep writing awesome stuff<3
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Thank you lovely; thanks for stopping by and taking a peek 🌸
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The thing about alter-egos is that they are really only those bits of ourselves that we choose not to acknowledge or introduce to others. I am currently embracing all of my other egos and the place is getting crowded…
Mike (I think).
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Exactly … precisely … and once we realise this and are mindful that they exist and choose to embrace, a whole new world opens up to us.
I think of your journey often and hope you are doing ok ..
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Thank you. I think I am currently doing fine (I think). Yesterday I made myself and my missus smile with my post on Budgie-Smugglers whilst Harper Lee engaged me today…Hope you are well.
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I am. Thank you also.
Attempting to channel the energy and enthusiasm (when it comes) into the manuscript.
Days such as yesterday assist to help me realise getting a book published could actually happen..
(Marketing it and selling it are two other beasts entirely, obviously!).
I’m having fun with it.
And that I believe is the main thing 🤗
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Fun is good. Sharing your words with others who do not know you is better…
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Not sure my AE has a good influence on me…but may be that’s why we are eco into such good friends.😉
That conference sounds amazing,waiting for updates
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Ah but I think it is… if it’s suggested some obscure moments, it’s recognised your need for them at that point in your life as something was missing….
The conference was genius. I’ve heard so many snippets of self-publishing processes and have spent the last hour studying the booklet given to us by Matador 👌🏼
Post to follow at some point (but you should see the kitchen now I’ve been away a couple days!!!)
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I think I can imagine😱Two days away and two days to make it human again🙄😂
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The freeing of AE is one of the benefits of age.
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My grandad used to be heard many times to muse … “you can’t screw an old head on young shoulders” .. usually in response to my parents telling my young self to do something…
It never meant anything to me then; just words he said.
Now I totally see he had a great grasp on life!!
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