Today, I dressed up as Greta. I freakin’ love Greta. She is who she is—a lovely little monster—and she is fabulous.
I went all in. I couldn’t stop giggling. I wore this to work. I changed my name tag to Greta.
I went to Chick-Fil-A. I told them my name was Greta.
It made me so happy.
I think not doing things that make you happy just because people say you shouldn’t—is dumb. Life is so short. Who are you living it for? When we reach the end of the line, I think we’re going to be so disappointed if we look back and realize we were living our lives for someone else—people whose opinions and values are constantly changing, and are hard to keep happy.
But you can make yourself happy, though.
In the end, it’s your face looking back at you at the beginning and end of every single day. Why not live to make that face happy? Why not live in such a way that you can make that face proud to be looking back at you?
It’s an ongoing effort to shut out all the other voices in your head in order to truly hear your own. I think, in the end, it comes down to watching how you feel deep in your gut when you make choices. How do you feel after? If you’re making choices that go against the person you want to be deep down inside, you’re going to feel it there. It makes you feel unwell.
Over time, you get better and better at listening to it.
Many of us are taught not to listen to our instincts, to what we want, and to who we want to be. We’re taught to suppress this part of ourselves. At one point in our lives, we felt we had to do this in order to stay safe.
But you can find safety, love, and belonging in being exactly who you are. You can find it within yourself.
Once you feel that peace within, it will radiate from you. And you will find those who love you for exactly who you are.
It takes a lot of work, practice, boldness, bravery, and forgiveness to rewire that. Learning to listen to who we are deep down requires a lot of compassion for ourselves. And it is absolutely worth the work.
Because life is short, y’all.
Who are you living it for?
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