No Know, No Go

WE all prefer the company of people of like mind…those whose interests and beliefs are in lockstep with our own.

We like to be reassured that what we are thinking and how we are acting is acceptable. We like to be liked.

But in making the effort to be who we think we should according to the company we keep, we run the risk of silencing the person we know ourselves to be and losing touch with our real identity.

The source of so much mental anguish in society is the effort to meet the expectations of others. So many people put so much effort into becoming people-pleasers that they forget that the very person they should be pleasing is themselves.

At our core we have a moral compass. In our heads and in our hearts we know what is right and what is wrong.

It’s when we start ignoring our responsibility to the person we are that we lose our place.

Those who continue to make concessions run the very real risk of one day conceding defeat.

For both survival and sanity we must work on making ourselves into someone we can live with and love.

The only way that can be achieved is by spending more time looking at who we are rather than at society’s reflection of who we have become.