Yeah, yesterday I got hit very hard by a friend of mine. And I don’t even know him that well, but I think I can call him a friend now as he just told me the plain truth in a way that i understood. Not many people do that, so I am really happy that I found a new friend, at least I hope he won’t let me down after I disappointed him.
So it seems connecting to people is not my strength, maybe even is my biggest weakness or one of my biggest weaknesses. And I don’t understand, because “I’m just me, just like everybody else”. But they also say that everybody has this side where are things he just doesn’t see, just doesn’t understand and doesn’t even realize it.
So what to do now, as my friend told me to focus on my strengths, on what i’m good at and not to bother so much on learning things I’m not so good at or focusing on them. But i also know that I can learn and that areas where I’m not good at I can become good at. Long time ago my boss told me that I”m not service oriented, which I didn’t understand. Later on another boss told me I’m so much service oriented. And I know maybe I gave part of me away in that turn around, but still, it was and is a compliment to be called service oriented while before I was not.
So I guess I’ll look for a middle way, like focusing on my strengths and indeed do the things I’m good at which I just did today. And it made me happy and I was happily surprised that after giving the best I could I was tired and was able to rest, could allow myself to rest, which I didn’t do for a long time.
So what’s inspiring in this quote? I guess just to be yourself and be happy with it, with your strengths and weaknesses. And indeed maybe focus on your strengths and make other people happy with it and not worry too much about your weaknesses. But that doesn’t mean you can’t improve also on your weaknesses. Just don’t be hard on yourself, especially don’t be too hard on yourself. We’re all just who we are and that OK, that’s OK enough, that’s just good, that’s just fine.