We might be homebodies or introverts or selectively social or whatever other way we’d like to define ourselves, but at the end of the day, we are human. We are human beings who desire interaction and connection with other human beings.
So, as you go into 2015 and you resolve yourself to grand plans, remember to ask yourself whether your resolutions are being dictated by shame in yourself or by love for yourself.
No, I don’t have to be anything by the time I’m 30, but I want to be. I want to have done more. I want to have been young and reckless and stupid just a bit longer.
Practice self-awareness instead of distraction.
You have to let go of the life you think you’re supposed to have in order to step into the life that is yours. This is essential.
So, no, you don’t need to make your truth pretty. You don’t need to say things are okay when they’re not. You don’t need to figure it all out and tie it all up and then—and only then—tell your truth.
Do what makes you happy? No. Do what makes you come alive.
The thing about life is that every aspect of it runs together.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
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