Own Your Path

There were times it was hard to follow my purpose. Usually those times were when I felt compelled to be less authentic about who I am because I worried about what other people thought. When we think we should be like other people say we should be, or when we feel like I should do this because that will look better for me, it will always lead you down a path that is further away from who you eventually will become. That is something that is hard to experience, but you will experience it again and again, with constantly more severe intensity, until you finally learn to accept that those people have their impression of you and you no longer care what their impression is. Once you no longer care completely and wholly, if you still care because you want self validation from other people, you want to know that you're a good person because they say you are, recognize that they're looking at you through their own individual lens. What they're saying as fact is not fact at all. It's simply a facet of a larger prism of truth.