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UNTETHERED
In a world where being multi hyphenated comes with a continuous sense of validating the method to your madness, what I have found that inadvertently does is that is I build a sense accountability within, I get to embody an identity and while I map onto it the character traits of the person I want to show up as, I create an internal system to back up any claim irrefutably to myself, and I develop the discipline to learn a new craft, appreciate another perspective, expand into uncharted territory; cause whilst the shifts are external, there is a sense of constant evolution of self and the expression of my truth and freedoms and living out my values.
And this is a very intrinsic journey.
Being able to hone in on that and the internal journey that then becomes as a function of it feels so damning but yet hella rewarding because this sense of awareness gives me clarity.
Not to be glossy about any part of it at all. The discipline about ritual and practices that then keep either thing about my own self grounded.
A while lot of that in the last couple of years had been facing a bit of a shift; systems and identities that gave form to my function or lack thereof in this world, a space where I derived meaning; and some of that core to my personhood.
That upending is damning.
Yet in its quake, quite beautiful.
Untethered.
