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Try This If You Are Ready To Live Your Life
Stop living to someone else’s expectation
I am one of those people
The “good” one who was terrified to ever step out of line regardless if I could get away with it. I learned right from wrong pretty early in life and for as long as I can remember, stayed a model citizen.
I don’t think I was unhappy. Life just felt comfortable. No particular highs or lows only routine, familiarity and predictability.
- I did as was expected of me.
- Spoke as was expected of me.
- Lived as expected of me.
Now I sit at a keyboard wondering if that is it. Am I living? What is living anyway?
In her book Untamed, author Glennon Doyle wrote:
I decided that if I kept doing the “right” thing, I would spend my life following someone else’s directions instead of my own. I don’t want to live my life without living my life.
I don’t know if it is an age thing, but that seems to be the theme I keep hearing around me lately. People are dissatisfied with their current trajectory, having lived according to society’s expectations and not from personal passion.
