An Ode to the Baddest

A brief reminder that you are exactly who you think you are.

And frankly, I am going to need you to stop taking so long to realize it.

When will it sink in babe? When?

Because we really can’t wallow in this same uncertainty forever. Going back and forth like we are on a soccer field.

You are exactly who you think you are. You are. So claim it, embrace it, and pronounce it.

And before you assume that I think it’s that easy to do, I get it.

Life is complicated, it’s never that straightforward, so I see why you are so distracted and in doubt and questioning. You have had to come to terms with the reality that you are not satisfied with the pace of your life, that you are not at the level you imagine you should be. Being delulu, distracting as it may be, feels silly when confronted with the stark reality of things you want, that are absent from your life right now. 

I get it.

But…you are doing that thing again, you know, the comparison thing, where you imagine yourself as someone you are not, at this particular chapter in your story. Right now, that is not who you are and that is not where you are. And until you stop convincing yourself that it means you will never get to where you want to go, you will never see the value in who you are now, and fully see yourself the way you deserve to.

Imagine reading a story, and the promising main character spends majority of the time, getting disillusioned by other people’s success, letting it defeat them and thinking lowly of themselves as a result, you would be ready to fling that book across the room.

You would be waiting desperately for the turning point.

Well here it is babe. Let this be your turning point.

The moment you have been waiting for. The moment the hero realizes that in a world of amazing incredible stories, theirs is also worthy of being told, unfolding the exact way they want, at its own unique pace. It is time to fully connect with yourself, no longer fearing how it looks to anyone else. It is time to pull your focus away from what other people are doing, what they think about what you are doing, or if they approve of what you are doing, and aim it on being fully immersed in creating the life that you want. That version of you that may feel so far away, a dream too beautiful to believe, too impossible to connect with, only appears that way to you, because of how lowly you view yourself.

Do you get that?

Your humility is distorting your self perception. And embracing this truth, doesn’t mean you are going to become some overbearing cocky menace, it just means you will be afforded the clarity to view yourself honestly. As the gift, the whole universe that you are. 

And it’s time to walk in those footsteps, a person aware of who they are. A person whose purpose is so clear, they take life’s challenges not as indication of their lack of worthiness, not as a reason for comparison, but just as part of the universal human trials that come with being on this earth. 

You are exactly who you think you are babe, flow from that energy, because it’s only just the gorgeous truth. 


xx

Doreen Caven

Doreen Caven is the co-founder of TGLM media.

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