We are all walking contradictions, caught between the pull of what we’ve known and the call of what we’ve yet to become. Each moment is a fracture in time, a space where the past whispers and the future beckons. In this delicate balance, we find both the weight of what holds us down and the lightness of what could lift us. The tension between these forces is where we learn, where we grow, and where the deepest truths of our existence are revealed.
Tag: authenticity
The journey of learning is rarely linear. It twists and turns, filled with leaps of inspiration, stretches of doubt, and moments of clarity that seem to come from nowhere. It’s not about mastering every step, but about showing up — raw, curious, and willing to fail — trusting that the process will shape us into who we are meant to become.
An artist must choose to shun acceptable behavior, political correctness, and the comforts of the commonplace to truly exist in the spacetime of their genius. Playing it safe is like painting by numbers, stealing a riff, using pitch correction, obeying the clock, failing, failing again, and then giving up; it’s pandering to the normals and ignoring what the world desperately needs from us.
At some point, we all realize that the weight we carry isn’t always our own, and the patterns we follow aren’t always of our design. As children, we embraced the freedom to explore, to wonder, and to leap without looking. But somewhere along the way, the world taught us to conform. Now, as the tide shifts and the foundations we’ve built on begin to crack, we are called to reconnect with that childlike curiosity, that raw, unfiltered sense of adventure.
Truth is the pricker of thin skin; authenticity lets the blood flow. Face your dark, beautiful self. Embrace him. Let her go. These shadows are…