If you grew up without anyone’s undivided attention, someone present enough to see who you really were and encourage you to be that self out in the world, you might find that you sometimes still feel invisible in the world.
You may find it’s difficult to figure out who to be and what sorts of life choices to make, or which direction to go, bc you’re still not exactly sure who you are in the world of others.
You might find yourself influenced by so many things but unsure which is the thing for you.
To create ourselves in the world, we have to go inward and discover what’s meaningful to us. We have to do the work that our grownups missed out on—giving ourselves our own undivided attention, discovering who we really are, and encouraging ourselves to be who we really are out in the world.
Though discovering who we really are and what’s most meaningful to us, we can begin to discover a place to stand in the world, and we can begin taking steps in the direction that supports who we are.
-JLK
