who you are

Many of us have difficulty reconciling the person we are right now with the person we want to be. We are disappointed that we have compromised our youthful ideals, and we still imagine ourselves as that person who had so much promise, but whom circumstances prevented from realizing it.

He doesn’t quite know how it happened; all he knows is that he doesn’t recognise himself in those stories any more, though he remembers the bursting feeling of writing them, something in himself massing and pushing irresistibly to be born. He hasn’t had that feeling since; he almost thinks that to remain a writer he’d have to become one all over ag

Somewhere between childhood, where anything is possible, and adulthood, where you feel stuck in life and have no time for fun, your innocence and hope were lost. This can be especially true of those struggling with a wounded inner child, who never had the chance to experience a normal childhood. In an instant, your thoughts turn from what makes you

If you are like most people, you come to believe that you are your limits. It is very scary to leave the familiar because change feels like you would no longer know who you are. The cardboard box that you settled into now becomes your identity, to be held onto at all costs. Self-limitation feels safe.