The Power of Showing Up
If there is one thing I have learned.hmmmm - Let’s take another stab at that. (Throat Clearing) If you pay attention, there is plenty to learn in this life.Let’s turn the years back a little to provide you with a little more context.
Although I was a shy child, I had a very pleasant upbringing. Loving parents, good friends, I did well in school and I kept out of trouble. Today, I would be lying to you if I reported that I have the same pleasant outlook towards life.In my adulthood, life got real.
One reoccurring phenomenon in life is re-meeting people. Let me explain.
Picture meeting someone for the first time. It’s something many of us do on a regular basis.Trust me - I’m no more social than the next person. Many of the new encounters I have happen at work; New colleagues, new clients etc. My place of work is what I guess you could call a “social setting”. Let’s get back to the phenomenon of “re-meeting people”.
So you meet someone for the first time. You have a conversation and then you part ways. At some later point, it’s possible that you’ll meet this person again.
I hate re-meeting people.
I do. And this never used to be the case. I shut down when I re-meet people. So much so that I try to avoid run-ins. The fear of re-meeting people comes from a place of a long list of insecurities that I experience.
I’m closed off. Because I’m closed off, I share little of my life. And when you share very little, there’s not much to exchange. And when you have little to exchange, people don’t hang around. And it sucks when people don’t hang around. So when I meet people for the first time, I’m scared they’ll “figure me out” the second time. Crazy huh.
But you’ve got to fight back. No one else can do it for you. No one else will do it for you.
You’ve got to return to the places, those events, and those people who you think have figured you out.
This post has gone on to long so I quit- I’ll be back tomorrow.






















