“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you ever felt or been misunderstood?
Has anyone ever misunderstood your intentions? Your Motives? Your Actions? Your attempts to build a relationship?
Sometimes its like water off of a duck, it just rolls off…
Sometimes it can be excruciating…
Have you ever felt that type of “misunderstood?”
My encouragement to you today is this…
YOU ARE IN GOOD COMPANY.
Let me repeat today’s quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson…
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
What would today look like if — instead of worrying for hours about someone’s thoughts about you, your email, your text message… you allowed them to misunderstand you.
Of course work to an understanding with people closest to you, but give yourself the gift of allowing someone to misunderstand you.
Because… being misunderstood does not mean you are misunderstand-able… Only that someone doesn’t fully understand the greatness inside of you.
