You May Just Owe Yourself
That may be the problem—you believe you must apologise for what you feel, that you must tread carefully with your words or suppress who you truly are.
There will always be those who diminish you, who make you feel as if the love you hold within is somehow misplaced—when, in truth, it is anything but. You must choose yourself. Choose love. Choose those who stand for something, who leave an imprint on the world. That is why you are here. You were born to set things ablaze, to unravel the constraints placed upon you, to return to the wild—to set everything, including yourself, free.
Do not wait until you are 70 to realise that while you were consumed by someone else’s life on a glowing screen, you were neglecting your own. That each time you felt something uncomfortable, you reached for distraction, robbing yourself of the chance to fully experience and acknowledge your emotions. That half the thoughts occupying your mind, from the moment you awoke to the moment you fell asleep, were never truly yours. That you forgot to lift your gaze and witness the world around you.
As a society, we have been conditioned into a state of abandoned awareness—trained to be numb, desensitised, entranced by destruction, and driven by scarcity. We barter our identities for titles, our joy for fleeting security.
Do not forget how to be free. Do not forget that you need no one’s permission to exist as you are. It is perfectly fine not to have all the answers. The journey, the revelations, the transformation—these reside in the pursuit itself. If, for even a moment, you dare to surrender the familiar, if you follow the quiet certainty inside you that insists there is something more, then you owe it to yourself to charge towards it, unrelenting.
You owe it to yourself to question everything. To seek out what makes you feel invincible, weightless, at peace. To examine whether what you do, where you are, and who surrounds you feeds your spirit—whether it liberates you, fosters your growth, and allows you to love without restraint, without expectation.
Matthew Thomas had said that we are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. We are in it to love and be loved. You are loved with your head down. You will be loved whether you finish or not.
If you follow the well-worn path of others, you will arrive where they have been. But when you let go—when you commit to truth—things begin to unravel and reconfigure. They settle where they belong, and you begin to carve out your place in this vast and luminous world.
You transform. You shed, expand, and realise—you were never meant to be tethered, never meant to stay rooted in one place forever.
If you chase what makes you feel alive, one day, you will wake up truly living.