I think and talk a lot about authenticity and being yourself, and how it’s the best way to live. However, something I haven’t spoken much about is the growth that it requires and what it actually takes to get there. It’s rather unfortunate since we are born authentic. I mean, look at little kids; those guys just do and say whatever, do a cartwheel, and keep it moving. Your response to their behavior is quite frankly not their business. Then, along the line, these same kids grow up after being told no, told to quiet down, to sit still, to stay in a box; they lose themselves, they forget who they are.
The idea of authentic living sounds so free until you realize you quite literally have to fight your way there sometimes. It means that you will shed, peel back layers, start again and again, go back to old patterns, be someone unrecognizable for a bit before you come back to yourself.
Knowing all of this, it’s easy to sit in your comfort zone and do nothing and be nothing, but you must choose what fight you are willing to engage in. You must choose if you are willing to fight FOR yourself and find your way back to you or fight yourself every day being someone you are not.
I think that there is only one way to live; you must be so wholly and truly yourself that it makes other people put down their walls and guards and be themselves too. You must be so authentic and true to yourself that it inspires people to just be who they are.
