What is your motto in life?

Some people may ask you this: "What are the words you live your life by?", or simply ask you "What is your motto in life?" We may formulate our own life's theme or find it as a line from a movie or a text in a poster, I found mine in a book.


I was reading "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho and I came across this phrase:


"There is no need for iron to be the same as copper, or copper the same as gold..."


It felt to me as if it is a message, a sign. If you know who I am, you know I have a few secrets hidden here and there. Some I have told others, and some I still keep to myself. It struck me and I kept on saying it to myself until I've absorbed it in my core. The way I understood it was that you should be who you are, and not what you aren't. If you are iron, be iron and if you are gold, be gold.

Is this the sign that I have been waiting for? It gave me a little push, a dose of courage to share my own secret. I am still uncertain about these things yet so maybe I should wait and let things happen when they are supposed to happen.


But what if it has to happen now, or it is meant to happen now? Maybe there will be another time or another way that will lead to the right moment and it will eventually happen.


But I am sure of one thing, I will take that excerpt from the book and try my best to live by them.


I am what I am.