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“Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself. This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us…Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotch-potch of impulses, our perpetual miracle—for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death: let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says”
Only by listening to yourself can you get to know yourself and be happy with who you are. But, there can be so much fear in not being uniform, straight out of the educational and societal production line. There is so much pressure to dim your voice and to conform—the unthinking, unfeeling, un-living are rewarded while dissenters are criticised, rejected, judged, marginalised and punished by those who are most invested or most in need of a uniform. Don’t cower from being yourself. Let yourself be known, which by consequence, will make you independent, non-conforming and alive.