Identity

So this is my first blog. I've been thinking of making one for a while, but I've always been unsure about my commitment to it. But I think it will be good for me. Let me start out by introducing what Something Like Simba means as well as the direction I mean to go with this blog.

I am a lion. I don't remember the first time that I initially gave myself this identity, but I do remember that, for the longest time, it was simply because I liked lions. Being my favorite animal, I just thought they were really cool and I wanted to be one. But it never fit.

Mufasa is the one who comes to mind for me as the stereotypical lion: big, wise, mighty and any other powerful term to create the king of the jungle. But that's not me. Small in stature, indecisive, not too frightening and whatever else is everything I ignored when coming up with this fantastic identity. But it was fun to pretend.

Now there was a time when I didn't really like Simba, son of a more mightier character. How could a scrawny little whiney character like him ever hope to fill the place the great Mufasa? Over time I realized he and I were more alike than any other fictional character I could think of.

I feel like where I stand right now in life is something like Simba. God has something for me. Something great. Something I have to take control of, but right now it's all too easy to listen to Timon and Pumbaa's way of living. But that's not what He has for me.

I am a lion. At first I didn't understand what that meant to me, but more and more clearly I'm finding it's my Big, Wise and Mighty Father's footsteps that I am to follow to make me the lion He needs me to be.

I'm making this blog to show how this story of mine develops, though, I don't think I'll be able to keep this thing as serious as it sounds.