Celebrate yourself!
That sounds simple enough doesn’t it? Sure does — but then why don’t more people do that? My hunch is that they simply haven’t learned how to do it.
Let me give an example:
Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.
We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly, in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life. Either way, you win.
The author of that “blog article” (this piece comes under the heading “I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings”) has her own website, and the same article appears on her so-called blog entry named “Regrets of the Dying” — but the website is regretably (no pun intended 
) a sight for sore eyes… — and it is not really a weblog (a weblog is a collection of “log” entries on the web, and each entry must be dated — but Bronnie Ware’s articles are not dated). Above I linked to a copy of the article to give an indication of how old the article is — I believe it might be much older, but right now I was not able to easily find an older copy of the article).
Expressing your feelings is definitely important, but it also helps to know how to do it. Bonnie’s article drives home how important it is to actually live out your life to the fullest before you die — there is no one else who can or will or wants to do that for you. Perhaps you could look at it this way: your life is nothing other than the sum total of your own expressions.
So how do you express yourself effectively? Actually, many ways are possible — the most important part of answering that question is: you should focus on yourself. If you put on someone else’s clothes, then the clothes are not expressing yourself — they are expressing someone else’s creation. If you visit someone else’s website and click a button or icon, you are nothing more than a cog in a machine — the product of which is someone else’s content. Perhaps most importantly, you need to differentiate between expressing your own thoughts and feelings versus being for or against someone else’s statement.
Once you truly live out your own life this way, once you not only accept your own life but in fact positively celebrate it, then you open the door for others to likewise celebrate your positive attitude and living expression of yourself. But do not make the mistake of paying attention to whether others do this or not — because as soon as you start doing that, you will divert attention from your own path. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t celebrate the lives of others — you should definitely reward those who inspire you with your attention and celebration of the way their living their own lives inspires you.
The easiest way to become a celebrity is to express yourself, to celebrate yourself and to celebrate whoever or whatever inspires you. Celebration is what celebrity is all about!
