I couldn’t have heard it said any better than the way it was so succinctly bared in The Iron Lady, through Meryl’s meticulous portrayal of The Baroness Thatcher, 

“It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.”

I say it as a product of that someone-syndrome; today our visions of tomorrow are bound to an endless stream of “inspiring” images. Ones that come directly at us in singular, pocket and purse sized mediums, so that the furthest we can conceive and dream is limited to me. Me, stitched together by everything I want to be, joining the stream with my endless poses and projections. 

As someone raised in a community that profess to be “revolutioners”, I implore us and myself especially to have less to do with the being and more about the doing; to participate in an ongoing revolution, held in the evident truth that all healing and necessary change in this world has not yet come to pass. If we are more concerned about doing something, then the more we will accomplish what it is that we are told to be - being ourselves, when suddenly this concern matters least.

‘“What? What am I ‘bound to be feeling?’ People don’t think anymore. They feel. ‘How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel comfortable. I’m sorry, we as a group we’re feeling….’ One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. Thoughts and ideas. That interests me. Ask me what I’m thinking,”

 ”What are you thinking?”,

 ”Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become…habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny! What we think we become. My father always said that… and I think I am fine.”’ - The Iron Lady (2011)