Vulnerability

Letting your guard down starts with yourself, trusting that whatever happens after you let your guard down is meant to happen and learning not to take things personally. A lot of us walk around with our guards up which leads to people only partially knowing this facade of you, but that only hurts your vulnerable side, the side that you need nourished, the side that needs to be loved and taken care of. I believe that we are all guilty of this including myself, this is one of the hardest things to master because we all want to protect our feelings rather than feel our feelings, but feelings are meant to be felt. Many of us have been through a lot of things in our lives and we feel like since we have our “tolerance” for people is lower than others but it should be the opposite, we should be sharing our testimonies and being the most open with others. If you haven’t noticed we learn and grow the most through experiences therefore if we have our guards up all the time we aren’t experiencing or sharing our truest emotions. I’m not saying that we should open up to everyone, I’m saying that sometimes the people that we have our guards up the most with might be the people who are most worthy of seeing what’s on the other side, you never know what you can learn about yourself through others observations of the real you nor should you be ashamed of the real you. The more you hide yourself the more you’ll lose yourself along the way, that then leads to the feeling that no one understands you, but no one will ever understand you if you don’t reveal your true self. We all want something real but it starts with being real.