Self-love is all the rage these days. It’s great that extending the love you give others onto yourself is being normalized and encouraged. However, when I hear discussions on self-love, they usually only scratch the surface of what it means to truly love oneself, often...
Category: Essay
The Art of Becoming: The Limbo Between Your New And Old Self
posted by: aaliyahinspired
May 23, 2022
Last year I wrote a short essay and filmed a video titled “The Hardest Thing to Let Go,” where I discussed the often overlooked problem with aspiring to some idealized version of ourselves. In summary, the effort toward striving for the ideal version of ourselves...
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You don’t have to wait for something ‘meaningful’ to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The ‘waiting to start living’ syndrome is one of the most common...
It’s easier to love what you can’t see. Uwade, Nostalgia The Minimalists posted a tweet that summarizes a concept I’ve been struggling with for the past few months now. The tweet simply said, “sometimes letting go of shoulds is more freeing than letting go of...
“It’s better to live a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.” Alan Watts If you were to ask me to describe my ideal life, it would go something like this: the days...
I always wondered what the people I consider role models have in common. It wasn’t until recently that I actually sat down and questioned what my top three role models had in common. I came to the conclusion that they all had and followed one...