Knowing yourself and being secure in who you are is so important…
And in my opinion, it’s kind of dangerous when you don’t know who you are, because there are people in your life (or people who really don’t know you and only know OF you) who will come up with their own conclusion(s) about you, or about your motives for why you choose to make the moves that you make…
And if you don’t know who you are, or aren’t secure in yourself, it would be really easy to get caught up in the lies that people spread about you…
And you may even find yourself wasting unnecessary energy trying to defend yourself against people who have already decided who you are…
I have thought about this a lot lately as I have heard the most interesting stories about me…
Stories that don’t even remotely line up with my character or the way that I conduct myself…
And as much as I tell myself that I am okay with being the bad guy in someone’s version of what happened… I’d be lying if I said that some of the narratives aren’t hurtful…
Like is this really who you think I am, or what you think of me…
But those thoughts are generally pretty fleeting because at the end of the day, I really am not responsible for the version of me that exists in someone else’s head…