Tell Your Own Story

Tell Your Own Story

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So often we are bombarded with other people’s ideas about who we are and what we are capable of. From childbirth we don’t control the environments we are born into, the people we are surrounded by or how they choose to raise us. The first fifteen years of our lives are essentially defined for us by the social groups we are birth into. These also happens to be our most formative years. The years where we still see the world through the lens of those we look up to and were shaped by, for better or worst.

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So, you can imagine why it is so challenging to break negative habits we’re not even sure we have until we’re confronted by them through interacting with people who were raised differently from us. But even with all these layers of complexity we are thrust into the world with, our humanness is relentless in its effort to become a better person, create new habits and to tell our own story. It is easy to blame our upbringing for not having or doing everything we desire, but it is equally as easy to accept that we ALL have come a long way and we all have a long way to go.

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No matter what you see on the outside of others, how well they seem to do in life, how perfect their story seems to be, just know that we are not privy to the whole picture. Just like no one is privy to your whole picture. Your story is whatever you decide it is. And if you don’t take charge of telling it, someone else will. In this life, no one is any more important that anyone else, no one’s pain ranks higher than anyone else’s no matter what we think, no one is owed anything. Life is not a game of fairness but an experience we turn into whatever we choose. We can focus on what we choose, hang with who we choose, think about what we choose and tell the stories about ourselves that we choose. Decide today that the world does not get to tell you who you are. Your story is your own.

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LOVE,

Jameelah

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www.JameelahRaoof.com/my-blog

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