It is conformity that has kept you tied to your current life. A life that leaves you in angst and confusion. A life that keeps you spiraling, repeating the same lessons over and over. Meeting the same kinds of people. Having the same types of relationships. You feel frustrated, and at odds with yourself, you question your purpose and the meaning of it all. All you want is answers. You look around you and compare your life to that of others and feel a lack in the midst of their traditions and prejudices when you are cut from a completely different bolt of cloth. You are designed by the Universe to be ultimately unique. In shedding this need to compare, to fit in, to adjust, you will free yourself from all that is weighing you down and keeping you chained to a life you don’t don’t crave, or truly desire.

You are being held back by the things you tell yourself, the things you think you need and want, because you think others want them too. You haven’t given it much thought, what you truly deeply want. You know you are destined for more, but fear criticism and judgment from others. You have close relationships that dictate your every thought, and you put yourself last sometimes. It’s time to put yourself first. The love you give to others can only come when you truly forgive and love yourself, when you let go of all the expectations you have of yourself, all the negative self-talk and perfectionism. When you let go of the should’ves and could’ves and focus on what IS.

It is time to live from within. Stop looking from the outside, wanting to belong. Belong to yourself, create the life that pleases you, one that you wouldn’t censure if it belonged to another, one that you would envy, knowing envy is not the objective. Knowing that fulfillment and worth will tell you you have succeeded in making a home for yourself, within yourself, and all that substance will be reflected into your life and outwards from it. You can create a life worth living, just make your life now, YOUR life, by being happy in it. Be present in it, by moving past that lack mindset of needing more by being more and doing more. Ascend like a bird past the things that chain you to your neighbors way of thinking or judging, and you will meet peers of the sky (enlightenment) who think like you.