So we get the job, the house, the car. We have the friends, the family, the partner. We plan the wedding and the babies. We have the wedding and the babies. We save for their education. We keep working, making money, paying bills, saving, getting through life. We have done it all - so they say.
AND THEN?
We have no idea who we really are or what we want from life. We are trapped in supposed ‘societal bliss’, but it feels more like a jail cell. We long for more but we are locked into a contract for life.
AND SO?
We go mad. We eat more and exercise less. We battle fatigue and struggle to concentrate. We fight with our family and stop communicating with our partner. We cannot see the light no matter what.
AND WHY?
Not because we did all the things that society programmed us to do. Because we did it all against our own will. Before we were ready. When we were only half of who we really are.
AND?
The moral of the story is: stop listening to everyone else around you and start hearing yourself.
There is no need to follow in the footsteps of everyone around you if you truly aren’t ready. There is a beautiful journey waiting for you and only YOU have the map. Committing to anything that seems too big for you is like burying yourself alive – a lifetime of suffocation and claustrophobia.
Instead, be patient.
WAIT until you are a whole entity before giving yourself to someone or something completely. And if you aren’t whole yet, go and find the other pieces of your soul – they’re out there somewhere, waiting just as patiently. And only you know where they're hiding.
