IMITATION: a thing intended to
simulate or copy something else. Something copied or derived from an original. Imitation
means copying the words, facial expressions, or actions of another
person.
LIMITATION: something
that limits a quality or achievement. A limitation is something that holds you back. A limitation could
also be a rule that restricts what you can do.
Check this out........
A middle-aged
woman had a art attack and was rushed to the emergency room. On the operating
table she has a near-death experience; seeing God , she asked if this was it.
He said, “NO, you have another forty-three years, two
months, and eight days to live.”
Upon
recovery, she decided to stay in the hospital and have a face-lift,
liposuction, a tummy tuck, the whole works. She even had someone come in and
change her hair colour, figuring that since she had so much life remaining, she
might as well make the most of it.
She
was discharged after the final procedure; however, while crossing the street
outside, she was killed by a speeding ambulance.
Arriving
in God presence, she fumed, “I thought you said I had other forty-plus years.”
He replied, “I didn’t
recognize you.”
Be
yourself. Think about it: Aren’t most of the discouraged people you know trying
to be someone they aren’t or trying to do something they’re not supposed to
do? A Congolese proverb says “Wood may
remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.” Jeremiah asks, “can the Ethiopian change his
skin or the leopard its spot?” (13:23). Julius Hare advised, “Be what you are.
This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.”
The curious paradox is that
when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. CARL ROGERS
There is only one life for
you-your own. The person who walks inn someone else’s tracks never leaves his
own footprints. Most of our challenges in life come from not knowing ourselves
and ignoring our true virtues.
Most people live their entire
lives as complete strangers to themselves. Don’t let that happen to you.
The easiest thing to be in this world is you.
The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let
them put you in that position. Leo
Buscaglia admonished, 
The opposite of courage is
not fear but conformity. Nothing in life is more exhausting and frustrating
than tying to live it as someone else.
Don’t be a copy of something.
Make your own impression. Dare to be who you are.
No one ever became great by imitation: IMITATION
is LIMITATION by (john mason).
