Throughout our lives, we constantly fight ourselves over things whether it be what job to go into, why you settle for the negative energy within your social circle or even why you ate that cupcake when you promised yourself you wouldn't. We seem to never be satisfied with the choices we make. Most of the time it's us trying to accommodate to the 'norm', trends, collective opinion of a certain group, or, most of all, what the mass media says. People are constantly moved by external forces in deciding what to do, think, say, feel, and look. Nowadays, thinking for yourself means you"re a 'rebel' or an outsider..
Well, if you think about it, everyone should be a sort of rebel.
Don't take that as me encouraging you to attempt to overthrow the government or be a nudist for the rest of your days (well, if you're into that) but take it in the sense of taking yourself back. By 'taking yourself back,' I mean getting back to who you truly were before you hit puberty or before the time you realized you had lost sense of who you are. As children, we used to go about our days not worrying about our image or what others thought about certain things, we just lived! As children, we let the world be our playground and the endless possibilities would send us into the infinite depths of our wildest imaginations.Now, we are lucky enough to even have solid free time for ourselves to compensate for all the time we invested in our everyday responsibilities. We drive through our lives now and we don't take the time to 'smell the roses' because it seems as if everyone is racing against time. Where did the love for life and it's treasures go? Why do we keep wishing for happiness when we can just drop all the baggage and be happy? The child inside us has been long gone and by the time you hit your golden years, it feels as if you have not accomplished anything.
But it's really not too late!
Too often people are reluctant to change their ways to live a happier, more fulfilled life because of the way they have been living. They think as if everything is set in stone and impossible to change. The saying "you do you" has much relevance here. The term literally means to keep doing what you are doing despite the naysayers. I hear it being used constantly but it is never really implemented and it really should. Being for ourselves and being happy with who we are does not only do things for your life, but for your mental and physical help as well. When you are conscious of yourself and what you want out of life, you only gear toward the things that benefit your overall quality of life. What is the point in living a life on someone else's terms if it's not theirs? Just think about it. How would life be different if you just decided and lived for yourself?
