Breaking Free from the Ego by Choosing Expansion and Growth

Not everyone we meet in life is focused on growth and expansion.

Some people rigidly cling to their dogmas and belief in the absence of proof or evidence.

Whether or not they consciously aware that they are trying to hold together a fragile construct of a reality where they can hold themselves in high esteem.

This is all the while being contemptuous, underhanded, and disingenuous. Rationalizing that the end always justifies the means, even amidst the chaos and destruction their actions create.

We will confront those who have self-serving ideals and in those interactions we will learn how best to contain a fragile ego that fails to choose to face itself.

We all have it within us to do better when we know better. Those who do not, are actively choosing not to, because alignment means taking accountability for all of the times they acted in ignorance. Facing the truth that their actions say about their character, their values, and their integrity (or lack thereof).

There are those who would rather live in disillusionment that face that harsh reality.

Selective memories fine-tuning the order of events to preserve and protect an intrinsic ideal that their behaviour fails to align to. Hoping their turmoil is non-apparent. That their guise is well-hidden and their intentions are unseen.

Knowing they expose themselves though denying themselves this honest reflection. No introspection, there is no "How I can do better," or, "How do I show up differently." those questions do not exist for those who are imprisoned by their own false sense of reality.

Trapped by the choices they made and still continue to make, stuck by their own design.

Choose to see yourself as you are and not as who you want to be.

There is a pain in self-awareness that is felt by all who choose growth. There is humility in acknowledging where we fell short, in recognizing that even when we try our best none of us are close to perfection. There is freedom in embracing that in knowing better we always have it within us to decide to choose better... not just for ourselves but for others.

The things we believe are not a prison.

We are not held captive when we give ourselves the grace to be wrong.

We can forgive ourselves and choose the path of change and transformation, we can breathe. We do not need to be anyone but ourselves, imperfect though becoming, with each experience we heal, we learn, we are transforming.

We are not the frozen snapshots that people keep of us in their minds. We all can choose the path of growth, not beholden to the identities we once held. Giving ourselves permission to embrace the shifts that life will certainly bring in our perspectives, through the challenges and the highlights that life will allow.

There is a pain is staying stagnant. Stuck within the limits of our innermost belief's design.

We are only small when we choose small beliefs to align to.

Choose your pain... and it is always better to choose beyond the pain that makes you shrink. Make the bold choice in choosing what makes you shine.

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