2.17.21 // unlearning

Unlearning.
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It's a strange experience when you start to unlearn societal boxes you're told you're supposed to check.
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It's a strange moment when you start to realize how much you're not aligned with the mentalities you are told to subscribe to.
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It's a strange realization when you start to distance from a "traditional" or understood way of living and start to see how difficult it is for the people around you to not hold you to the same standards you're trying to escape from.
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It's extremely hard to pull away from the societal flow.
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It's even harder when you shake your support network with fears of the unknown and promises of uncertainty.
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The people who voice concerns want to keep you safe and often safe means familiar. They don't want to see you get hurt or to suffer. But often what is so unseen is the hurt and suffering from taking a path that isn't yours. Cutting words like "be careful" or questioning "should you do that?" create a paradox of love and control to remain in the expected.
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But, to those of you out there staying clear in their unlearnings, creating new boundaries, and failing only to get up and show that the worst-case scenario is only bad in your head, keep going.
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Keep showing and leading by example that fear of the unknown is as pointless as worrying about the future when you've got a perfectly good present moment right in front of you.