17/04/2023
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”
- Neil Gaiman.
We’ve been taught to not be 100% ourselves.
We’ve been taught to not be 100% real.
Yet, isn’t “being real” something that we expect from one another?
From childhood, we need to be encouraged to learn to be out authentic self , to become our own person. That will mean that we have a better chance of growing up knowing who we actually are. The inner world is a space for the child to grow, develop, and learn. Development is something that happens to all of us throughout our very first years of existence. Most of our behaviors are learned at that stage.
Individuated people are more likely to be authentic and wise. The achievement of this could be something to aim for throughout our whole lives and can, in itself, give us a wonderful sense of purpose.
Being our real selves involves courage, the courage to risk being true and authentic. This sometimes requires that we speak out for change.