By Cassandra George Sturges
My mother would always say, “People in this world
will make you or break you.” When I was a know-it-all-teenager, I remember
arguing with my mother about not letting people change who you are as a person.
Every time my mother said that I would cringe and
say to her, “How could you let other people’s words and actions change who you
are. It is so weak minded and pathetic.” My mother would say, keep living, you
are still wet behind ears without a pot to piss in and window to throw it out
of.”
I have always been a, what-you-see-is-what-you-get
type of person. Honest to a flaw. Talk wayyyy too much. Always telling my
business, my hopes, and my dreams to anybody who would listen. I never assumed
for a single moment that people would try to exploit me or take my ideas. I
thought these type of people only existed in movies and on television.
So I am shopping in Joann’s Fabric store—right? My
favorite place in the world and the cashier checking me out asks, “So what are
you making?”
I told her everything that I was working on with so
much joy and enthusiasm in my voice, I sounded like Will Ferrel in the movie Elf.
After I finished, I asked her—so what are you
working on and she said, “I am not telling anyone because I don’t want someone
to steal my idea before I have a chance to execute it myself.” She said it as
if she was appalled and disgusted by my audacity to ask her such a private and
personal question.
I was stunned by her answer. This was two years ago.
Since then I have copyrighted the Jungle Beauty Goddess series and artwork with
the Library of Congress.
I have since stopped talking about my dreams with
anyone. The people who resonant with me will find me.
The one thing that I have learned is that since I
have stopped talking about my dreams to other people, I am able to accomplish
more in less time. I think that the passionate energy that I would normally
give away by talking too much—I now take that exuberant energy and pour it into
my dreams.
And since the only other being, I am communicating
with is my muse—we have developed a more profound relationship that allows me
to hear and see my ideas clearer.
When people ask me, what am I working on I say… oh nothing
just playing around to see what comes to me.
While meditating, I had a vision for a no sew, no
glue Jungle Beauty Goddess doll clothes collection with original patterns.
After the retrograde ends May 22, 2016, I will release the patterns and how to YouTube
series.
Silence is golden. My mother was right. I don’t
think that people break or make you into something less—I think people chisel
you into unveiling the gifts inside of you-- so that you are able to un-apologetically
express who you were meant to be.
