You Have a Right To Be You

Photo by Ken West

Your life and consciousness are precious. They can be cut short at any moment for unexpected reasons. Think of the people you’ve known who suddenly are gone. Knowing that your life span is limited and essentially unknowable means that each moment, each day, each spark of opportunity is precious and needs to be embraced. 

Fear of talking to strangers. Fear of engaging with other individuals. Fear of doing x, y, or z. All are close-ended attempts to avoid pain and rejection. Dump them. Instead, embrace what you fear. Make love to it. Stifle fear with your creative boldness. 

You are the prime mover of your life. No one else can live it for you. No one else can know what you think and feel unless you tell them. 

Rich or poor, high or low, powerful or weak, we are equals in our ability to know what we want and our determination to get it. All that is required is the willingness to work for what you want, and to be who you are boldly and unafraid.

Those who like you will gravitate to you. Those who don’t like you will go their own way. There will be those who hate you for being you. That’s their problem, unless they try to interfere or stop you. In that case you have a right and obligation to defend yourself and boldly assert your life choices. 

You have a right to be you. 

Ken West is the author of the goal achievement workbook, Achieve Your Purpose.

Ken is also a photographer. His photos can be seen here.