I feel a big bundle of different types of tangled up feelings..
If I had to name it, I guess I'm naming it anxiety. Or, maybe, the need for my own acceptance.
And I'm not talking about severe anxiety or about anything that serious. It's just this: feelings. Emotions. Having too many feelings and being taken entirely by them.
Sometimes, we get so into our own heads and listen to our demons so carefully and faithfully to the point of forgetting the feeling of the freedom of our choices and the freedom of simply being one's self without constantly thinking of behavioral right and wrong from other people's perspectives rather than our own.
And because we're deep inside our own heads, we concentrate too much on ourselves. Everything we do is magnified in our own eyes. All the trivial things we do, get so huge we can't see past them. Things get magnified and then the anxiety kicks in. (Or is anxiety that magnifies them?) While in fact, if we just took one moment to look at ourselves from a different, more forgiving perspective, so many things will change.
We get so into our own heads, that we forget that we are beautifully unique. That there's no one like us in this world. We forget to take a relaxing breath. Just to breathe in, then breathe out. Just forget the restraints and live the moment happily.
We tend to forget that there are no rules for people to be themselves except actually being themselves and being confident about it.
It takes so much energy; it takes away so much of life, to be otherwise.
There are, literally, endless stars in the universe. None of them are like any other.
There are 7 billion people on this planet, not one person is exactly like the other.
Our differences are exactly the things that make us, US.
I've always thought that the human's psychology is the single hardest equation of all time, but really.
Why is it so hard to accept differences?
Who sets the rules of what's right and what's wrong for being one's self?
Be weird.
Be kind.
Be awkward.
Be true.
Be different.
Be free.
BE YOU
(And be 100% okay with it)
Look at yourself the way you would look at your best friend.
Look at yourself as a loved one.
Say to yourself the things that you would say to your most favorite person ever.
Live life and enjoy being whoever you are in it. Because it's short. And there's absolutely no time not to.
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I love this video, so I'll gift it to myself. Over and over again.
