One can change through the influence of others, one can change through the lack of external influences to become more as your pure self. The latter is more challenging, yet from lived experience I tell you it is worth the struggle, for this is where I found myself and was able to finally heal completely. So, now I am "me" and not a random mosaic of others. I love this feeling. I love who I am. And here is my nirvana, my internal peace.
The drive toward variation meets the drive toward conformity for group safety in opposite directions. The relative power of these forces in the neurology of each organism and the society will determine the strength of each. Variation is favoured by safety and has the power to drive creativity and discovery. Conformity is favoured by adversity in all forms, a recipe of negative factors combined. It is, however, worthy of note, that these forces are not equal. The history of humanity is a bloody tale of genocide. Thus only the survivors are our collective ancestors. Thus the drive toward conformity is a preparation for war and is amped in power by comparison. Thus in times of fear the proper leaders must have an upper brain (PFC) capable of dominating their primitive drive and converting that amped power into solution finding over war strategy. It is a simple switch, yet all leaders must possess the ability for such.
Perhaps once I inspired from the backstage, because there were better dancers that I. Perhaps this way I could make a million breathtaking dancers rather than be on that stage myself. Perhaps the time as come though, now that those dancers are strong, to enter the stage in ballet shoes and become comfortable in those spotlights.
I will always be a writer, it was imprinted into my soul. My art it pours out of me, as if my heart wishes to sing all day and all night. It is such a chatterbox, this heart of mine. It dances in the words as if it were performing a ballet, loving each tiny movement. It comes as a river, often gentle, yet with a flow that appears to have a sense of where it is going. It comes to be born rather than moulded, to show itself for what it is. It is a lot of me and a lot of divine inspiration, or that is how I see it when an artist truly loves, when the art is the proof of the loving heart.