Rainy Day Inspiration

You are not who others perceive you to be.

There are intricate layers to your being: those of grief and of growth that only you + God know to be true.

Your being is not static. It is becoming and unbecoming and becoming again.

Lately, my own perception of myself has felt muddy. I’ve let the loud opinions of others seep into my own truth. Opinions about how it’s “funny” to see me farming or “surprising” to see me in front of the camera instead of behind it. As if some people weren’t ready to see me actively participate in my own growth or share parts of my life that I previously held captive.

Though it stings, I refuse to let those words define me. Just because I left the farm for ten years does not mean it wasn’t always who I was. Just because I put myself in front of the camera does not mean I’m not introverted or shy or private.

Saleswoman, realtor, teacher, storyteller, lonely, lost, outgoing, broken-hearted: I have been all of those things. And I will be more. Because I’m not afraid to fail hard and to grow big.

There are always layers.

There is always context.

Nothing is binary. black + white. fixed. concrete.

I’m certainly not, and I hope you aren’t either.

Don’t change yourself based on somebody else’s wildly bold assumption about the one particle of your life you choose to share with them.

You are not who people perceive you to be. You are becoming and unbecoming and becoming again.

Because…what else is there?