sometimes the most important thing we can do is let ourselves stay blurry. to be unbranded, unpositioned, undone for a while. because real self-knowledge is a slow, unmarketable process. and the lost feeling might just be the first sign that you’ve finally stopped performing someone else’s idea of a good life.
it’s not that we don’t know who we are. it’s that we’re finally brave enough to question the versions of us that were designed to survive, not to thrive.
there’s a strange ache that comes with outgrowing a version of your life that you worked hard to create. it’s the kind of feeling that doesn’t announce itself as grief but hums in the background of your daily routine — in the moments when the things that used to feel important start to feel hollow, when your goals no longer excite you, when you’re ... See more
We often make choices aimlessly, deciding on something just because life needs to keep moving or its just what everyone else does - going on a trip, starting a new job, having an affair, having a child. We never quite get what we expected out of it - there is alot of space between total regret and complete fulfillment, do we ever truly get there ?