Nature and Nurture…Returning to your True Essence

Concentrated to diluted. Whether it's the seed that sprouts into a plant that is full-grown or you that comes in form also through a seed that sprouts into form, the concentration, the essence of you or the plant is still there but becomes diluted once it takes on other environmental elements. The same seed that is germinated in rich soil and in a closed environment grown under careful supervision will result in a different plant from the same seed that is planted in soil that is beside a busy city and loaded environments that have many other factors that are seen and unseen.

It's not to say one is better than the other, but it can be and would be more pure and innocent, less affected by outside influences. The same is with you and any energetically living thing. The experience result is heavily influenced by others; as are you. The true core or essence of you, to put it simply, is still there and will always be, but the experience that you're having this go round is heavily influenced and modified when allowed by you. Once you understand the true essence of you, you can intentionally be that which you are and understand that the influences do not have to affect you.

Unlike the plant which soaks in the sun, whatever is poured on it and infused through the air, it may not realize it has the choice. But you do. Choose to be you, no matter the environment. Go back to your seed, your core, your essence. Reactions that are influenced through outside sources may add to your experience or take away from it. It is up to you. Take only what feels right or that you choose. Always up to you. Once you know, you aren't able to unknow, but you can ignore, but why would you? Be all that you are and choose to be.