It can be tempting to adapt our behavior in the hope of making a good impression, so that friends, family, employers, lovers, partners will like us more. We shift and change the shape of how we handle the expectations of others and, in the process, a part of us, how we truly feel, gets shunted aside and our genuine feelings are hidden from sight. Gradually, what we truly think and feel begins to fade, to be replaced with a nagging hollowness that tells us we have lost part of ourselves.
Fulfillment depends on us reclaiming ourselves. To recognize our inner selves, to embrace and allow freedom of expression of those inner parts of us that we know to be ‘who I am’.
Be true to you. Be who you really are, not who others want you to be. Allow the rejection of those not in harmony with the real you as others who truly appreciate you will recognize you. To be accepted for your genuine self, only by accepting and being yourself do you allow this to happen.
~ Ivan Kelly
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