Ready for an unboxing?
Here's a lil something that's sinking in for me with next-level depth:
The more I'm conforming, the less I'm creating.
Like, the more I'm trying to squeeze myself into a box, the less I'm exploring my edges and potentials and ideas.
The more I'm using my time and energy to Make Something Work, the less time and energy I have to Make Something New.
I'm choosing to have fewer choices . . . which tends to make me forget that I always have choices.
I exist at choice.
This is so vital to recognize, because being disconnected from creativity is deeply disheartening.
When we're less creative, we see fewer options.
We have less access to vitality and ingenuity.
We're much, much less courageous.
And we're much, much easier to control.
This is in part, I think, because it gets harder and harder to love and honor ourselves when we're focused on being who They want us to be.
Like Rita Mae Brown wrote:
"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself."
Oof.
Okay, so where are you conforming more than creating?
What situation is - if you're honest - confining you?
What standards shrink or contort you as you try to meet them?
Where are you trying to make It work, even though It sucks?
Wherever that is, please know:
we can make something better.
love,
Natalie