Belonging.
In a recent lecture, (will most likely be a theme in my life during my studies) I found myself confronted with my own inner dialogue and it wasn’t anything new that I didn’t already know. It was more the realisation that this narrative is shaping the way I live, move and exist in the world. That I don’t belong. I’ve spent so much of my life trying to fit in. fit into what I think this world wants me to be, what the people around me expected me to be and what I believed I needed to be to belong. Recently I saw a short video where Brene brown said the opposite of belonging is fitting in. “ Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging , on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.” Be who we are. Who is that? Who is that when you have spent a life comparing, changing and a lot of the time deciding there is no way I can become a person who will belong, becau...