LESS EGO / MORE SOUL

So what do I want to do with my life?

I want to change perceptions.

I want to help people to grow and own their actions unashamedly.

I want to encourage people to live for themselves and no-one else.

To experience and enjoy anything and everything their hearts may desire.

But most of all, I want to encourage people to love themselves, accept others and celebrate everything.

Presently, it seems, we  like to think of ourselves as free. We say we can recognize our freedom of choice. Western coutries proclaim to be ‘free countries’. But looking at how our societies are constructed, how free are we really?

So much of our lives are monitored. So much media is directed at manipulating us and persuading us to fit in.

Based on my own experiences and my interactions with others, I feel that most of us feel trapped, caged and cornered. That many of our actions are based on external cues, and thus confuse us when our choices do not satisfy our personal desires. People feel they have to fit in with the rest of society. Compete with their peers. Be ‘normal’. But what I have come to realise is that normalcy is not natural.

Normalcy is what the majority around you are doing. But we are individuals. We need different things. We have different desires. Different passions. Different purposes. What is natural and often the right choice for us, sadly is often self-oppressed with the fear of being judged..

People smoke, people drink, people do drugs for a variety of reasons. The biggest being to deal with social pressures – either to fit in, or ‘take the edge off’.

People judge and people are scared of being judged. People expect others to be a certain way. To fit in with certain stereotypes – to be ‘normal’. No-one wants to be left behind. Everyone wants to be included. They want other people with them to testify the experience. And so they edge on their peers to follow them. ‘Have another drink – you’re not as drunk as me!’

I’d love to put my life towards  encouraging people to feel confident and comfortable in authoring their own individual life.

I don’t want to tell people what is right, or what to do as I don’t believe in “right” or “wrong” and so I would have no authority to do so. Instead, I just hope to help create  an environment where people feel equally accepted in their behavior, regardless of how many others are following them.

I desire to empower them to have the confidence and the initiative to pursue what they want. To be individuals. To live freely. I want to create a social consciousness of acceptance; ‘each to their own’.

I want to break down the social norms that embarrass us and suppress our greatest desires. I want people to feel comfortable and confident in being themselves; to love themselves.

I want kids to feel that they dont have to do drugs or drink to be cool, but that equally if the want to try out new experiences that is also okay. I want girls to feel that they never have to do anything sexual that they don’t want to – but equally if they love sex – that’s okay!

I want give people a choice again.

I figure that if I can find a way to achieve these goals, starting with the younger generations, perhaps our world will have a chance…Care to help?

How do you teach one to love themself?