"Just do you, man. Just do you." "Girl, just do you. That’s all. Just. Do. You." What does that mean, exactly? Maybe to some, it means: You are enough. Or perhaps: just be yourself. Fair enough. That’s not bad. But is that really what is communicated from such a sentiment? And is it the most loving thing one could say? Or might it be, perhaps, the most lazy thing we could offer. We live in a time of fake love. Lots of it. Have you ever been on the receiving end of that? Someo
Let’s play a game. Ready?? This will be fun!! Ok, here we go. What’s your label? Some of you know exactly what I mean. Some reading this, though, do not. But you will. Ok, right now. Think about one thing that you have been told that you are. What about a condition you’ve been told you have? Think about what that is. What about a “type” of person that you are? Or maybe to counteract the way that description, placed upon you by another, made you feel, you came up with another
"I've been this way for too long to change now"... "See, when you get to be my age"... "I have gone too far to turn back at this point". These are all comments that most of us have heard, if not uttered ourselves. And if we're honest, they feel very self-defeating, narrow-minded, and well, kind of hopeless. What is interesting though, is that even if the person who speaks these things has experienced disappointment and setback in their lives and perhaps not seen a lot of obse