Just Be Yourself

Even When It’s Easier Not to Be

It’s hard to be yourself when it feels like the world wants someone else. It’s hard to be different when you naturally are and just can’t seem to fit in and can’t seem to stand out in the right way. It’s hard to be human some days.

Just be yourself they say, but they don’t mean it because to actually be yourself is to challenge the roles and structures created for us. They want you to believe you’re being yourself - but please don’t actually be.

You’ll have far too much power if you truly learn to be yourself. You’ll realize how much you’re capable of and how unique you truly are. You’ll embark down a challenging path that deviates from the norm. You’ll be tested more times than you can count. You’ll be rewarded with an authentic life that can’t be pre-packaged.

It’s weird to be yourself

It’s weird because few people actually are. It’s weird because it’s different than anything else the world has known already. It’s weird.

It’s worth it.

Worth the pain & discomfort

of feeling unseen in the beginning

Worth resisting the temptation to choose a path

already created

It’s worth it.

It’s frustrating

It’s frustrating feeling like it would be easier to choose a pre-built path but knowing that would never work, knowing that you’d never be able to get fully behind it. It’s frustrating when you feel so different that the world doesn’t see you . . . yet. It’s frustrating to walk this path, yet you do it anyway.

It’s fulfilling

It’s the light in the darkness, the knowing that you are who you’re meant to be, the soul satisfaction of having the privilege of living. It’s its own reward to withstand the challenges and come out stronger on the other side. It’s an addiction to becoming through unbecoming.

Unbecoming

all that you had to

to learn

to be

Unbecoming

that which you didn’t choose

but served you

and serves you

then doesn’t

Unbecoming to become

YOU

but only the you that’s you because you’re unbecoming what you became. that’s you but only because it once wasn’t and you’ll always be a piece of what you became even as you unbecome even more. you’ll spiral and unbecome and become a bit more and then unbecome even more and you’ll know the feeling of you and that’ll be enough.

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