The Inspiration Edit - Realising Your True Worth
If you have ever become separated or separated yourself from a friend, family member or even partner throughout your life, you may look back now and realise that at some point in those relationships you felt like you weren't your true self and this can rear it's head in lots of forms such as, you made decisions or took actions that you felt weren't aligned with your morals and core values but maybe you did them because you wanted to meet the vision of that person or group of peoples expectations of you to ensure their happiness or to keep peace in difficult situations. Or maybe it's that you were made to feel that you needed to prove yourself as worthy of their love. We can all probably look back in life and think of a time where we have done things like this.
Sometimes we will even go over and over in our mind focusing on things people may have said to us, an easy example I can think of for myself is that throughout my life (I won't say who by because it's actually more than one individual which is sad in itself) I was made to feel that I could never be successful by myself because I am a female and that being an independent female is a terrible thing and that success doesn't come without a male in the situation. Now we all know that none of the above is true but when you are in a situation where you are continually told the same narrative you can really start to believe these thing's.
That is an example that I am able to reference too and to be honest that same narrative has been present in different scenarios and from different people throughout my early life and my young adult life. In these situations I can look back and see how this narrative that other people were convincing me of stopped me applying for jobs, following ambitions and even stopping doing thing's I loved to keep other people happy or for fear of continual judgment. I look back now after my own growth and development as a person and I am able to see that I was told these thing's and we for anyone who can relate, are told these thing's to keep us small. If we are kept small we are essentially kept controlled in a way and this is where my inspiration for this quote came from.
I want all people to know that you are not what other people tell you that you are, you have always been and will always be "you" but sometimes "you" is too much for some people to handle and therefore they will try to keep you small. This could be for different reasons, for example, people are scared that with growth you will leave them, they don't want you to be more successful than them and there are many other scenarios, but the purpose of my quote however is to encourage you to look at yourself and carefully analyse the scenarios you find your self in throughout life and also to look at the people you surround yourself with. Over the last few years I have had personal growth like never before and I am able to se my worth without intervention from anyone. I know what I bring to the table and I know that I am capable to do anything I set my mind to and that with my determination nothing can stop me achieving my dreams. I also only surround myself with people who see my worth too and encourage me to be the best version of myself.
When you can finally be free of other people's expectations and from the people who try to control your narrative, your life will start to get better in ways that you could have only dreamt of.
Jordan
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