August 14, 2025- Expose the best in you

“Even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself: but from some character in whose soul I now live.”

~John Keats

We don’t just fake it till we make it. We fake it till we become it. The things we practice become the things we are. We don’t get to just wait around patiently for the good that is in us to emerge. Our actions will expose us.

If we are using the fact that life is short and that we only live once to justify our choices to follow every impulse and sample every vice, we’ve got it all backwards. Because life is short, we only have a little while to peel back our layers to expose the best of us. The choices we make that bring out anything else are using some of that precious time up.

We do not need to live a life of purity or chastity. We can answer some impulses, from time to time. Even if we try to abstain from anything and everything the best of us would turn away from, we are bound to have some moments of weakness when we will give in. But what do we practice? What do we habitualize? What are our rituals and routines? Do they serve our impulses or do they serve our greater intentions?

The life you are living is creating the person you will be. Are you exposing the best that is within you, one choice at a time?