When you aren’t true to yourself, it is so easy to feel uncertain, weak, scared, and even lonely. Mostly, you feel tired. You become tired of the uncertainty and loneliness, tired of the frustration of your dissatisfaction, and tired of feeling like you aren’t realizing the full potential of many aspects of your life.

You feel trapped in a cage that you have created for yourself, a series of barriers erected to keep others from being disappointed in you or by you, barriers which serve only to keep the disappointment you feel towards yourself inside. Life becomes a series of repeating patterns, just as it does for most people, but your patterns only serve to reinforce the negative self-perceptions. The sensation of being mentally strapped down by the fears and doubts and disparate truths of who you are and who you try to be are such a burden.

Eventually it comes down to a simple choice: Continue down the same path and be unhappy or try a new route, take your life in a new direction. It has been said that the definition of insanity is repeating the same steps and expecting a different result and if that is true, then the same old path is the path to insanity. It is your obligation to yourself to take the path you have traveled less often. It’ll feel funny at first but I think you may like what you find.