Welcome to Un-Copied Life!
Hi, I'm Kim, and I'm tired of being told what I should be doing with my life. I'm tired of being told how to dress, what to think, and who to be. And I'm not the only one.
Have your well meaning parents ever pushed your adult-self into doing something you knew wasn't right for you?
Have you felt judgement because you didn't pick the career that everyone "just knew" was right for you?
Have you felt the pressure to conform to the norms and standards of our society?
Well, you aren't alone. Everyone has felt this pressure at one time or another.
And while we can't eradicate social norms, we can modify our reactions to them. We can take control. We can stand up for ourselves and say "No more!" We can take back our lives.
We must learn to accept ourselves as is.
Our lives are constantly in motion, always changing. Becoming stagnant is often the result of trying to be someone that we aren't. We aren't the same person we were yesterday. To keep ourselves happy and our ideas fresh, we must accept this, rather than forcing ourselves to conform to the mold of yesterday.We must stop letting others dictate how we feel about ourselves.
We determine our self-worth, no one else has the power to do this. It is up to us to decide what we believe about ourselves - not the media, not our friends, not our parents. The Choice is ours alone.
We must not make excuses.
Not for ourselves, not for others.We can't use this as an excuse to be lazy or give in to fear. We can't live in fear and tell ourselves "This is just who I am". We absolutely must do the work to find out what makes us react negatively, learn from it, and decide where to go next. We can not live in fear!
We must not be a copy.
We have to make up our own minds, decide what is best for us, believe that what was best for us yesterday may not be the best for us today. We must never "go with the flow" unless the flow is taking us where we want to be. And we must examine why we choose where we want to be.
