"They" don't get it

"People only see what they are prepared to see." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I saw this quote on @jdavis55 Twitter account today and one thought went racing through my mind ~ that's why "they" don't get it.

We make thousands of choices every day of our lives. Then come the times where we have to make bigger ones, choices that obviously affect other people's lives as well as ours, or choices that change the course of our life. When we make these choices often times "they" don't get it - "they" don't understand why we did it.

"They" are the people who are close to us, the people who's lives intersect with ours and the people with opinions we listen to. And the truth is that none of them are you. None of them know exactly how you think and how you feel. None of them can ever understand why you do what you do as well as you understand it yourself (and if we're honest, we don't even always understand it ourselves - we just know in our gut it's what we have to do).

So it's okay if "they" don't get it. When you know with absolute certainty that you are doing what you must do then that's enough. You can be polite and you can be kind, but you do not have to get "them" to understand. Know yourself, trust yourself, and follow your path. And if you want support or you want to be able to get excited and 'bounce off the walls' talking about your new adventures then seek out those who are creating change and do 'get it' and share with them.