Are You Afraid To Be Different?

Are you afraid to be different?
After doing a coaching session this morning, and spending a weekend in what will eventually be our new home town, I thought the question asked and information shown below (Received from Express Coaching-Dr. Randin Brons) was right on the money!
Unfortunately, I’ve picked up a “bug” along the way, and my head is foggy. Like I am told many men are, I get "sucky" when not feeling well.
In our new “town”, I played in a golf tournament at a club where I know no one, and am a “city” person in a small town. I did feel different, but felt it without fear. I am who I am, and that is pretty decent and as people get to know me, they’ll appreciate who I am. Different? In ways, but with a lot to offer!
I am happy to be just me. I try, on a daily basis, to live as my higher power directs, and for this I am grateful. I can be me and stand for my own values.
“On the path of evolution, we move from being a willing and obedient member of the group to wanting to take control over our own lives. This is a necessary but difficult transition.

Andrew Schneider says, "At this point we are afraid of being ourselves. We are afraid of being unique and different. We are afraid of being individually powerful, and even successful. For all of these things stand against the old ways that told us that conformity was right and individualism was wrong.

"For as long as we possibly can, we make a compromise. We try to live both lives - the dependent tribal life and the independent personal life - as contradictory and opposite as they are.

"We want approval from others. We want to be accepted and popular. We seek this comfort to overcome our fear and feel more secure. ...So, at times when we conform, we don't feel the fear of living. But we might lose the new sense of adventure, discovery, daring and enthusiasm for life that the questioning and questing have brought us."

"Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another." -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton “
For all, I pray that you find the journey that allows you to be you!