Self Expression

What gives you direction in life?

It’s hard to say as I initially write this.

I can assuredly say that for most of my life I felt directionless, at the behest of doctrines assigned to me unsure of what I wanted for myself.

In the deepest ridge of the fractured lifestyle I was experiencing there was one thing that was able to carry me from day to day.

~ I want to help people ~

It wasn’t obvious to me until I was already 3 jobs in helping people in some regard. Teetering on going forward with doing social work outright, wanting to care for others is something I really wanted to do.

In the directionless fog I found myself in for years the one thing that helped me clear the path was harnessing my self expression. Whether it be with how I worked out and tracked all of its information or how I started to journal and read. I was taking more time to know myself and understand myself on a deeper level.

In this process of trying to understand and heal myself to deeper levels, a new saying started to burrow itself into my mind.

“Self expression is fundamental to happiness”

The more I expressed myself and the things I wanted to do and followed through with the things I wanted to make and went into a new career following my gut instincts it was clear. My self expression and my creativity fueled the direction my life went in to.

Even now I sometimes feel lost, but it’s not a negative thing. I still feel that I am moving in the direction I’m meant to it’s now that the new environments and experiences I have make me feel lost since it’s all so new. It emboldens a flame of excitement within me that makes me want to do more and lean into all of my eccentricities and uniqueness!