A friend of mine shared with me recently that she felt like a she was often playing a role rather than being her authentic self. There was a fear that someone would find out and call her out as the "fake" that she felt she was.
I know that this is a common theme among many people I've spoken with, and seems to be a part of the human condition.
There is a natural inclination to want to deeply know ourselves, "I am this. I am not that", and during this process of self-exploration, we may get overwhelmed by the many parts of our personalities and scare ourselves into believing that there is something deeply flawed about us.
We are multi-faceted beings. All of our unique facets, whether we label them as authentic or not, combine to make up the whole of who we are. We ARE the sum of our parts, and when we fully embrace ourselves as ever changing, ever evolving,
then we see the perfection of our imperfect selves.
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