We are born with our loudest cry, and our loved ones, our family, feel so happy. It calls for a celebration… a baby is born.
We receive love, care, a name, values, and beliefs that we carry for life… not knowing that maybe we have a different perspective, a different dream, different limitations, different tastes… our own likes and dislikes.
We simply follow, enjoy, and do what seems normal or okay because everyone around us is doing it. Our parents are doing it, loving it. Our siblings are doing it. And without thinking, we just follow…
And that becomes our habit… our comfort.
But as we grow, something within us feels so done… so tired… so exhausted… so stressed. Even though we may have achieved every checkpoint on the checklist, everything seems okay to the world, maybe even to you. Yet, you have no sense of what is wrong…
The problem is that, somewhere in the journey of growing up, you lost your own authenticity.
Now you are carrying the beliefs, the identities, and the roles that were taught to you. You did everything to keep everyone happy, to maintain peace, to numb your own feelings, desires, and pain, to gain acceptance… to create harmony…
You sacrificed your own self, your own voice, your own peace, just to keep everyone around you happy.
And now, something within you is crying…
That cry is not asking you to keep everyone else happy.
It is a calling for you to come back to your abandoned self.
The time to open the cage that you never knew existed…