When You Challenge Your Beliefs, You Change Your Life

A letter to my 38-year-old self from my 51-year-old self:

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“Do you feel that?

There’s a heaviness and burden on your shoulders that you don’t realize you’re carrying.

It goes where you go.

Maybe you don’t know it’s there. It’s grown slowly and subtly; its existence lives beyond your current perspective.

Much like a frog doesn’t realize it’s being boiled to death, you’re unaware of the ever-increasing weight you’re carrying.

You’re also unaware of what that weight is doing. It’s burying and slowly suffocating a piece of you.

And not just any piece; it’s the unlived life inside you.

It’s your authentic self.

It’s the creative, the writer, the innovator, the child who sees opportunity and magic. It’s the part of you clamoring to be set free but trapped under a burden that slowly grows.

What is that weight? It’s a lot of things, and we’ll get to them one by one.

But as an introduction, it is this:

You’ve dedicated the first half of your life to acquisition, not only on the material plane but also internally.