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When it comes with living in our world with our current society along with all its qualities, it’s almost impossible to not be convinced by their voices to be one of them. To be what they want us to be instead of beign ourselves. This can be hard not to fall for because of the facts of us wanting that acceptance of society for ourself. We end up falling for it and become all the things they want us. We become all their expectations and standards.
But there are great ways to break this cycle. But it involves challenging ourselves to rather seek for our own acceptance instead of the rest of society’s. Because what we think about ourselves is much more important than what others think about us. We shouldn’t let society get in the way of seeing our own self worth and become a prisoner of society. And so when it comes to being a prisoner to society, an important thing that happens during this time is losing sight of our true self. We lose and forget who we are as a person and get all caught up in society’s convincing words just to gain that acceptance when rather our own acceptance is what matters most here.
And so for me here relating to this kind of issue, I’ve come to share here that for many years of my life, I got all caught up in society, I lost myself. I lost sight so far all because I wanted that acceptance by society, but didn’t end up happy when I did. And since the beginning of being back home from college on April 25, 2015, I found myself working on loving myself and being my own person while not caring what the rest of society including my own parents wanted me to be. Regardless of what they wanted me to do and to be, I chose to be me. To be true to myself and authentic with myself and others regardless of their thoughts against.
And doing this eventually one point or another lead me to freedom. It lead me to being fully authentic with myself and others but not giving into society again. Feeling free to be out of society’s prison world to world which I am calling it.
The struggles I’m facing. The chances I’m taking. Sometimes might knock me down. But no, I’m not breaking. I may not know it. But these are the moments that I’m gonna remember most, yeah. Just gotta keep going. – Miley Cyrus, The Climb
And yeah I’ve struggled overtime but through it all, it has all made me stronger and wiser. As well as it has been something that I’m proud of regardless of the stuff before. We all make mistakes, we are human, that’s normal and completely healthy. We all get into those moments where we make the wrong choices and decisions, but through it all, what matters is what we learn from them.
We all can learn from our mistakes and if we allow ourselves to, we can be impacted by each moment that can teach us valuable lessons. Everything happens for a reason and I believe that everything in life can teach us through both good and bad moments in life.
What matters more than the mistakes you make, is what you’re able to learn from. – T.I. Ft. Justin Timberlake
With many events and moments in my life, I’ve come to have finally learned what they can teach me and therefore have impacted me greatly. And I’m so truly grateful for all I’ve accomplished and all that I’ve gotten in result. And lastly, I believe that we as a society need to practice gratitude and mindfulness so we can all know its real and life changing impacts they can have on our own lives!
So many of us aren’t practicing gratitude because we take so much for granted. A few things we all have taken for granted is a family, education, freedom, food and water. It’s time we start being more grateful for all that we do have. Because there are many others in our world who are less fortunate than we are. I’ve been practicing gratitude, mindfulness, silencing my mind and all the rest that comes with living with mental illness in recovery for a little over 2 years and I’ve been lovin gthe results every day.
