Who are you?

The only way to get out of the box and be free is to
think outside the box. Society has told us who we should be and not to find who we trully are. We have to trully be brave enough to live to find who and what defines us.

I always wonder why do we have to follow the rules? Who created these rules in the first place? Who said you should fit in a certain form and if you don't you are an outcast? Why can't I be simply me with all my imperfections and flaws? I am both perfect and imperfect and I am simply here to learn, to grow. Perhaps we should all learn how to live so we can grow. Living is not the same as gowing through the motions of everyday life and routines. Living is being present in the moment and enjoying it with all of your senses! But how often do we allow ourselves to live? Once, twice a week, a month and then back to the old cycle? How many of us are actually brave enough to live? Maybe not many...at least not in corporate America, which should be the land of dreams. So why aren't we living our own dreams but instead somebody else's? Because someone said so!

It takes a lot of courage to face the real you! The real you is the one that wants to thrive, be free, live! The everyday you is the one that simply goes through the motions, waits for another pay check, pays the bills, eats, goes to sleep, and the cycle continous on and on. Sounds familiar? But who wakes up happy with a true smile ready to embrace the day? Who simply cannot wait for another tomorrow because their being is so fulfilled and thriving that life seems to be so exciting and amazing? I personally over the years haven't met that many people.

We all have to learn to live our dreams and allow ourselves to simply be! Why stay hidden in a closet? Who are we hiding from? Are we hiding from ourselves because we will be judged by society? So what? People will always judge you! Remember that! You can't please everyone and you shouldn't! You must learn to love and respect you, your true you, not the one everyone wants you to be! Do what you love and embrace your imperfections! Embrace what makes you unique, different! Being different is an advantage. You don't have to blend in with the crowd to be liked! Don't blend in at all! Stand out like the bright colours stand out in winter! You will feel the difference in your attitude, behaviour, life!

We have learned and been programmed to be prisoners of our own selves and believes. We have allowed the box that society has created to define us! Break it! You don't need the box to love yourself! All you need is to learn to live by your own standards, rules and vision! Only then you will go far and move ahead. Otherwise you will be stuck and you will feel stuck, drained, tired, sick, emotionless...feelings I am sure are felt and shared by many.

I am not saying all that because I have mastered the bravery to be me. In fact, I haven't. I am still learning how to be me in a society full of judgement, labels, criticism, norms. So how is America the land of the free if we don't feel free ourselves nor are we allowing it to happen? Freedom is more than what we perceive it to be. Freedom is courage, bravery to stand up for you and fight for that right!

So who are you? What do you want from life? Do you feel happy where you are now and if not why not? Do you feel the spirit inside of you? Are you ready to make a change in your life for the better? The beauty of it all is we all have choices. We have been given that right as humans. We just simply have to learn to make the right choices for us.

I hope you can find the answer to some of these questions to help you better understand the real you! That's all I want...to feel trully happy and free and me in a society where being you is not a norm its simply a dellusional standard. Be you, be happy and trully smell those roses once in a while!