Jan 05 2009
On limiting yourself to *your* work
Learn to limit yourself , to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
My Blog, True Quotes features quotes the make you think. Well, this one sure made me think — probably because I am doing just the opposite. It is good advice that perhaps I should consider heartily myself.
I am a wife and mother first, but I am a photographer, artist and writer as well. In my role as mother, I homeschool my children. I am a grandmother, a daughter and a sister. I wear alot of hats!
Some of the things a person is, can be negotiable, others are our responsibility and that’s that.
I want to have a farm, and I raise chickens for eggs. I am thinking of adding another farm animal - a sheep or goat - next year. But the more I diversify myself and my activities, the less I limit myself, and the less I am content with my own “definite work” like Amiel suggests.
What does this quote say to you. Does it make you think? I hope so.
