The older I get I realise how imperative it is to be comfortable in your skin and really cherish the beautiful and bad qualities that make you, let’s be real no one is perfect.
As humans we try to get everything perfect; for example, our relationships, our answers, our cooking skills, our teachings and listening skills but we forget or perhaps downplay how important it is to know and love ourselves.
By undermining our thoughts, feelings and hobbies we place the power of influence to others, which means instead of ‘doing you’ you end up ‘doing others’ by following a lifestyle or portraying an image that is not a 100% you.
Fear is mainly an unpleasant emotion triggered by pain or risk of danger. Fear is also an emotion we blame for our shortcomings or a feeling we enhance which becomes powerful. We should not fear being ourselves or taking a leap of faith, creating a chance, and doing what makes us happy. The key to success in almost all lines of work is being different. Working individually, coming up with alternative ideas, having a contrasting personality or thought process – all this makes you stand out in a human’s mind because they notice that distinction in you.
However, being unique and standing out from the crowd means you become visible. Maybe this is the problem because by being recognised, acknowledged or seen we become open to judgement whereas if we follow a trend for the sake of it, we may also be judged, but that judgement or public opinion is shared between you and loads of people (also following that trend) which makes you less angry or unbothered. Ultimately, we may feel alone by being unique, perhaps this is what we fear…
I am not suggesting we wake up and do it all, screw fear and be your perfect self but what I am proposing is that we acknowledge individually our happy places, accept who we are & take chances. Fear will be present, but you must not let it control every action/result in your life.
Take pride in not just being you but becoming the best kind of you.
Yours truly,
HiddenVoices – HV
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