Daydream Believer
I've discovered how hard it is to convince people that you are not insane. I've only been able to talk to dead celebrities for the last year or so. This is a gift from the Universe. We all receive our gifts when the time is appropriate for us.
Perhaps if you get the gift when you are young, like my friend Myrna, you live with it and your tribe accepts it. But if you are older, it seems harder to show people that this change has occurred. It was planned to work out the way it has. My gift is as real as Myrna's, only she's been doing it a lot longer.
So the point of this post is to say to those who don't fit into the mold, it doesn't matter what anyone thinks of you, all that matters is what you think of yourself. You don't need anyone's buy-in or approval to know what you are capable of. There are many people who are gifted and some choose to deny their gift for fear of retribution. My grandmother on my Mom's side is one of those. (BTW my gift comes from my Mother's side.) Her mother did not accept her gift, so she never acknowledged or talked about it.
I am not ashamed of what I can do and can only hope that someday those who doubted will see the light. I happen to know that several of my relations have gifts but will probably never acknowledge their gift since they can't even acknowledge mine, let alone theirs. What a waste. This gift isn't given to just anyone, it is a GIFT and it goes unused in so many lifetimes because of the human ego.
I'm not gonna waste mine. Damn, I wish I would've gotten this when I was younger but that wasn't the plan. So I will make the most of this and do the best I can with it. And if I can help one person who is struggling with their abilities and don't understand, well I will be happy.
The bottom line is to accept yourself for who you are. No matter what. Yours is the only opinion that matters, everyone else's opinion is just that, their opinion.
Believe in yourself. Yourself is all you have.