Tracy Davidson

Remember when I overheard a girl in a Gap dressing room telling her Mom “my sweats are still my love”? Today’s inspiration came from a very sad line that I read in an email a friend sent me. “I live behind walls.”

I guess we all start with walls. We build them because we don’t want people to see our true selves… our fears, our insecurities, our pettiness at times, our hurts. We build walls to show people what we want them to see. We use them as protection. And they serve a purpose for sure. But I think there comes a time when we start to realize that layer after layer of walls make it hard to see our own selves clearly. We end up looking at our life and saying.. Wait.. Is this really me?? Is this really how I want to live my life? Do I have everyone fooled so much that now I have to live up/be something that I’m really not??

And then the real light bulb, that I think comes with a little bit of experience, a little ways down life’s path… and that is that making a “connection” with others is one of the greatest blessings/gifts/enjoyments of life! But true “connections” are hard if all the walls are up. So, you want to lower them, slowly, but it’s scary because you’re exposed, naked.. Still, I think once we realize the value of true friendships, we feel pulled toward our “authentic” selves and we’re ready to take that chance.

Let’s all do it together. Let’s all commit to try to drop a wall today, to open ourselves to the people around us and experience life.