When you're truly free...

When you're truly free, you're truly you. Living a life full of challenges and problems causes you to see yourself as a problem. We entitle ourselves by what we see or experience to be "true" about ourselves. The problem is we are labling ourselves when we are experiences these problems. Imaging seeing a dog on the street that has chunks of hair missing, has lots of wounds, and is really thin. You might take a look at the dog and think it has diseases or is dangerous, but because you never take the time to get to know anything about the dog, you would never know the truth of its story. Same goes with us. We often judge by appearance or experience. This is especially true for ourselves. We might say, "I don't have really close friends that are there when I need them, I'm still single, I don't get all the attention..." so we instantly conclude that we aren't good enough. That's when the label starts and we add to it everytime we have another negative experience.

I've come to learn that defining yourself while you're feeling aweful and burdened is never good. You will never see yourself as your true self. Don't define yourself when you feel the weight of the world on your shoulders. You will only be seeing yourself as that weight. You need to be free first. Once all of those negative thoughts and feelings are gone and your mind is clear, you can really get to know who you are. After the heavy loads are lifted and you know what you know to be true, ask yourself the question, "who am I?"

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