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Aspire to be Yourself, Not Someone Else
The person you are aspiring to be is already taken
From a very young age, we are told, “you’re just like your mother/father.” I hear the question all the time, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Do you know what answer I have never heard? “A better version of who I am today.”
I get it, most of those questions are asked to very young people, but it appears everyone is trying to be or act like someone else. In the process, they lose themselves. What about just being you? I know it isn’t easy. I’ve spent a lifetime adapting to life, people, and situations, trying to “fit in.” I’m finally figuring out at 46 years old, not everyone will like me, and that’s Ok. That person that doesn’t like me or makes a comment that hit one of my insecurities won’t be thinking about me 5 mins from now, let alone years down the road. So why do I care?
The reason I care is because of years of conditioning. We are raised to chase our parent’s dreams or the dreams of our parent’s friend’s kids, or what someone else thinks is best for us, right? But what about if that’s not the life you want to live? What if your path looks completely different than your parent’s path? Is that what pushes kids down a path of destruction, and they start to rebel? I don’t know, do you?
