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Have you ever felt like the very foundation of being human is fundamentally flawed?
I couldn’t help but write this down. I know life isn’t a mathematical equation with clear steps, but there must be a better framework than the one we were handed—especially when it comes to almost everything.
When I say *everything*, I mean it.
Fear of vulnerability, fear of being judged, fear of mediocrity, fear of not achieving society’s expectations, fear of losing people, fear of having to be perfect, fear of not finding "the one," and if found, fear of losing them.
Fear of disappointing our parents, fear of falling behind in the rat race, fear of hurt and betrayal, fear of not being understood, fear of not belonging, fear of ending up alone, fear of being broke, fear of not accumulating enough wealth, and fear of the unknown. Yes, the unknown. And yet, why do we live in fear when it’s based on something that isn’t even certain?
We’ve been conditioned our whole lives to live within a “safe zone,” and that’s what creates all this fear. And that, my friend, marks the end of freedom—of emotional depth, of endless possibilities, of different ways of living, of authenticity, and of the many things we could have discovered.
I wish we had simply been told to *live*. To just live.
Earlier this evening, I revisited some notes from a training that didn’t make sense to me at the time. But now, as I went through them again, I understood every step. It made me reflect on how much of what I’ve been taught since childhood no longer makes sense.
The steps were flawed. And now, I have to unlearn and redo everything, just to make *some* sense of this life.
*Some* sense. Phew!
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