"You are what you repeatedly do"

A wise man once told me; “You are what you repeatedly do”.

I never really understood this statement at first until now.

He made me see my life as a dark room,

and it was my choice to switch on the lights or keep it dark.

The thing about this dark room is that I’m never the only person in it;

there’re so many other people there with me all the time and I just don’t realize it.

Therefore, my decision to turn on the lights or keep it off affects others as well.

This wise man referenced to the fact that, though I may tend to have many dark days,

There were days that I had the lights shinning so bright in my room that I could hardly keep my eyes open.

He then asked me, “Why do you chose to forget those days?”

My answer, “I don’t know”.

He asked again, “Why chose to turn the lights off when people need it the most?”

My answer, “I guess I couldn’t see past my thirst to remain in the dark”.

Then he continued to say, “Do you realize that once you chose to keep your room dark, you will be attributed with darkness, since you are in actual fact what you repeatedly do?”

My answer, ***Silence***

My thoughts, “It’s really true, I am gradually becoming what I repeatedly do”

At that moment, I begun to think of all the people that needed light each day and all I did was lock them up in darkness.

I begun to wonder what kind of a person they actually thought I was, to have kept them constantly in darkness when all they needed was light to brighten up their day.

But then what if I don’t feel like turning the lights on?

Should it matter what the other people in the room think?

After all I call the shots cause it’s my room right?

As if he could hear my thoughts, the wise man cut in with answers to my questions.

“It’s okay to feel like being in darkness sometimes, but once you make that choice to turn on your lights for those who might need it the most, you make a choice to transition from dark to light. Automatically the burden of darkness will be elevated from your shoulders and the light shinning in your room will lighten your heart. In effect, your act will manifest in your actions, because you really are what you repeatedly do.”