Self

Courage Is Your First Step to Personal Freedom

Facades don’t last.

Kevin Horton
YouMeUs
Published in
5 min readMar 26, 2021

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Photo by Alexander Lemann on Unsplash

Moments of complete freedom are only experienced when we are completely ourselves. No gimmicks. No pretending. It’s the kind of freedom that allows you to love who you see in the mirror, first thing in the morning.

We no longer worry about wearing a certain persona to make ourselves more appealing to those around us. Their opinions of us don’t hold as much weight anymore.

For most of us living in this day and age, the opposite is true. We want people to like us. We want to be accepted by whatever group we’re attracted to. But that almost always reconstructs who we really are.

It causes us to shrivel up and throw a blanket over our uniqueness in the face of opposition. And sometimes, it even changes us into the characters we never wanted to become.

Longing to be more than who we are, we leave our best selves in the dust.

Courage frees you to be yourself.

If you take a look around, you’ll see people who are mostly concerned about what other people think about them. They endeavor to mold…

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Kevin Horton
YouMeUs

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