For a long while, I struggled with a weight on my shoulders. The burden of feeling like a Fake became too great to bear.
When my cup tipped over, I reached out to a mentor to talk.
“I feel like I’m this big imposter- saying one thing but doing another. Am I not?”
“But…” he said benevolently, after listening to my situation carefully, “Are you really?”
The air froze like cracked glass.
“Aren’t you just being a wise adult?” He asked back.
It was then that I realized, not being generous in the way I wanted to be to everyone around me to the extent I wanted to didn’t make me a cop-out, just because I failed to live out my value of extravagant generosity.
Because it’s at the intersection of several of our values coming together that makes us responsible, discerning and wise. Not upholding one value the way we expect ourselves to may not necessarily mean we’re being inauthentic. It could mean that we’re making a complex decision based on the interplay of several values coming together.
I hope this blesses you, and takes the burden off your shoulders. 💛
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