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Coming out

To come out, as your true authentic expression in the world, is more challenging than I could imagine.
It feels like, the ideas within my head, of what is expected, are so stiff and creating a whole self that isn't ME.
I posted a picture in my social media. A picture where I'm feeling the shift in me. I know I am shifting, I experience it. And I get the comments of my previous support system of friends and elders. And I feel trapped again there. As if they're perpetuating the past.

It's so hard to let loose, especially of those. I can understand they come from a place of compassion.
But I don't want compassion anymore, I don't want to be supported anymore, I want to be loved and this means, to be heard, and this requires from me, to finally become able to speak.

I want to come out in my fullness, in all of my craziness and authenticity, I've been shrinking, people pleasing and silent for so long.
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ninalanyon · 61-69, T
I think many, perhaps most, people have just this problem but don't realize it. They just think it is the way of the world and don't push against the barriers.
elafina · 36-40, F
@ninalanyon yes exactly that... Trying to feel into it, each has their own timing.
But people need to learn to let go. I get from old friends a message like "oh no we're going to loose her..."
Oh no, you're truly going to loose me only if you try to keep me in the frame that you got to know me.
We need to learn to let others be more free and change.
We do this to each other and it's so hard to not do it because familiarity and comfort is all that we've got and we want to hold onto it dearly..