Happy Friday! This week has been pretty quiet around my office but I am still sooo sleepy and can't wait to stay in and be cozy this weekend. (The photo above was from a delicious dinner in Copenhagen that had all the hygge vibes, which I'll be channeling starting approximately 6 PM today ;) hahaha) One of the things that I hope to be doing a lot of over the weekend is reading and catching up on books that I have had checked out of my library for over a month now.
Recently, I have also found a few excellent articles online and thought that it would be great to explore them further and dive a bit deeper here on the blog. Earlier this week I shared an article from Man Repeller on my Instagram stories and I have been thinking about writing a full post about it since! In particular, I want to incorporate lots of personal growth and self-discovery content this year and I had the idea to tackle different components of this journey in a blog series.
The article that I'm referring to is entitled What If You Already Are Your Best Self? and the main premise is that often times, the parts that we "hate" most about ourselves are the things that make us most unique and celebrating those qualities will allow us to truly be our best selves. I absolutely loved reflecting on this the past few days!
It's so easy to write ourselves off as weird, awkward, or strange if we have a quality that we think other people will not like. But when we lean into that quality and let it steal the spotlight, I think that we get a much clearer understanding of who we (and other people) are. I've had friends that label themselves as weird because they have a goofy sense of humor, and those are definitely not the same. In my own life, I have a few really niche interests (soil profiles and the history of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, to name a few) that other people might not understand, but I think they're cool nonetheless. And when you embrace those parts of your personality, you offer the world a more accurate representation of who you really are.
One of my best friends wrote this article a few years back about what it means to let yourself be obsessed with something. In many ways, I think what she says there holds true for this conversation. We don't want to let ourselves obsess over the things we love because we are afraid that they will be deemed uncool, and so we revert them to the back of our minds and make them out to be our "worst" aspects. We tell ourselves that we are weird for really caring about the process of what went into writing that song, or thinking that soil profiles are beautiful for informing us of the earth's health and history.
What if we all let ourselves let go of the "worsts" and allow them to be our best, most interesting and most defining characteristics? According to the Man Repeller article, everything gets just a little bit clearer when we give ourselves the space to accept all these parts. Freeing ourselves of that extra weight might just be the key to unlocking our full potential -- and it was inside of us all along.
What do you think? I'd love to hear something you obsess over in the comments below!
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