There was a mold I thought I had to fit in to, and who I was inside didn’t match it.
I tried to be who and what I thought everyone else wanted me to be.
I tried not to make anyone else feel uncomfortable by talking about anything that wasn’t concrete or along their line of thinking.
And I wondered all of the time why I was never accepted for who I was.
I love all things mystical and magical. I love philosophy and I believed in quantum physics long before I heard scientists talk about it.
I never spoke of any of it because I didn’t want to be called crazy.
But then I realized we are all a little crazy in our own way, this was just my way.
I realized the more I accepted who I was, the more I didn’t give others the choice.
I also realized that I’m more at peace and fulfilled inside when I speak about, honour and live a life that revolves around my beliefs and what I love.
Now I am intentionally and unapologetically waving my freak flag all over the place.
Now I consistently share, talk about, and teach what I believe, and I get a little deeper into my crazy all of the time.
“It takes courage to grow up and be who you really are.” ~ E.E. Cummings
The part I didn’t understand before was that by hiding who I was, and by pretending I was someone I wasn’t, I attracted people who were doing the same into my life.
Now, with my flag flying high, people like me who do “things like this”, can find me.
Because I have shown up in my life, others have shown up in my life that are doing “things like this” with me.
The more I am who I am, the more I can be who I am.
That is glorious. And freeing. And confirming.
Are you being unapologetically you?