Nobody But Yourself June 1, 2014
Posted by nrhatch in Mindfulness, People, Writing & Writers.29 comments
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.
I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.
I was naïve.
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:
That I am nobody but myself.
~ Ralph Ellison
Author of Invisible Man
Aah . . . that’s better!
