The state of becoming

letting go of black and white, and thriving in the grey

even emma chamberlain has spoken about having to disconnect from everything she built in order to figure out who she really was. the point isn’t that reinvention is glamorous. it’s that the people we admire most often had to lose themselves first.

milk and cookies • why feeling lost might mean you’re finally doing it right

you have to lose yourself first

you can’t stop people from painting their version of you, but you don’t have to hang it in your gallery.

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create your own self-perception that doesn’t rely on external validation

I’m naturally slow and that’s okay. I talk for hours and that’s okay. I think deep and that’s okay. Self-sabotage starts when I try to move fast, I get frustrated and I get angry because moving fast is not me. And that’s okay. Life is about self-acceptance.

“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”

— Bob Dylan