Did you know that you can be who you want?

You can do what you want?

Why are we, as humans, afraid of being free?

We are afraid of the truth.

Of rejection.

Of anger.

Of unhappiness.

Of forgetting.

Of fear.

Of danger.

Of missing out.

Of not being missed.

We are far more interested in what we are scared of than what we actually want.

Do we truly want to be free? Or is it something that we yearn for and stand for as an idea, but when put into play we run from it.

We run from the truth.

We hide from it.

We don't want it to come out.

We don't want to be rejected, or mad at, or unhappy.

We don't want to be forgotten or scared.

We want to live on the wild side but we don't want danger.

We want to be included but stay home - safe.

We want to be wanted - but independent.

We can never seem to have it both ways. That is unfair. But no one ever seems to say that life is unfair and yet they do. It's the phrase "that's life" that secretly means "in life the word fair has no meaning". That life really does not care what you want. You only have one life but most people spend it in secret. They don't share their happiness or their sadness with others.

They are alone.

Is that what you really want?

Or do you want to be alone because you've been turned off from people - from humankind (or lack thereof). Because you have been treated so terribly that you don't want to be around someone who could act like that?

Don't lie to yourself.

Don't sit and suffer in silence.

Be fair to yourself. It's the least you can do. Even if life won't be fair to you. You be fair to it. If that's the only thing you accomplish then you can wear the badge of honor that was your silent pain and say to others "look at me! Do you see this?

This means I WON". You can show them that you really did win.

You dished out kindness and fairness in an endless supply.

You were fair when no one else was.

Don't change the way you are if you don't like it, change others and the way they think about you.

And also curse them for ruining your self-image.

Be beautiful to yourself in your kindness and innocence, no matter how much is left.

Be fair to yourself when you make mistakes.

Be fair to life even when it kicks you while you're down.

Win that badge and wear it with pride.