Embracing the Journey: Exploring Self-Discovery and Self-Love

When someone asks you to tell them about yourself what is your go to answer?

Are you happy with the person that you put out to be? How often do you have to think hard about things that interest you, things that make you, you? It could be hard to tell someone about yourself when YOU don’t even know the answer to that. No matter your age I can assure that your interests have changed countless times over the years. Who knows the many more times that can and will happen.

Do any of us fully know who we are?

Simple things like your favorite color, me personally, I’ve changed my favorite color at LEAST 10 times in my life. Things change so often. It’s up to you to take the risks of doing things you’ve never done. If you played only basketball when you were a kid and stuck to a “well that’s what I know” mindset, then the rest of your life all you’ll be able to say is you played basketball. You could have loved soccer, volleyball, dance, whatever it is that you had a small interest in but you didn’t take the risk to try and venture out from what you were comfortable with. Be comfortable with the uncomfortable. I cannot stress that enough.

“If you don’t know who you truly are, you’ll never know what you really want." Roy T. Bennett

If you don’t try something new, how will you ever know if you like or don’t like something? Even if you tried something new and you absolutely hated it. At least now that is something you can say is just not for you, and the fact that you tried it means now you can move on to the next thing and try something else that you have an interest in trying. Even if it’s not like a diehard interest, try it out anyways. You never know the random things that you end up loving. Things like foods, clothes, careers, relationships, habits and hobbies. None of these things are permanent. You can freely completely change your interests in things in those categories whenever you want. There are no rules when it comes to your interests and finding and discovering yourself and who you are.

If you are not fully happy in your life then it’s time to make a change. Stop idling on life. Stop waiting around for something to happen in order for you to start doing more for yourself. There is nothing out there that should be stopping you from finding your interests in life.

Don’t live your life on what ifs and I wish. Go out and make things happen.