BITS ‘N’ PIECES
Until recently, only a small fraction of the human population lived their lives publicly. Now, everyone has access to a global audience. We all live in public. Some more willingly than others. There’s pressure to share more of ourselves than we want. We often feel we have no other choice. To be relevant. To fit in. To get ahead. To be trusted and liked. Accepted and understood.
While fame comes with many blessings, there is an impact and a potential cost to living your life in public. The world is now one big small town. But within that virtual town square, there are tiers of relationships, degrees of intimacy, and everyone deserves a different amount of you, a different side. Where those boundaries lie is up to you.
In order to make those decisions, we must all be our own protectors. Because it’s tempting to think that the more you share, the more ways others have to connect with you. But there’s a specialness in knowing that whatever you share with your best friend or family is just for them and no one else. Without that inner circle, you‘re left with shallowness and a void.
Living in public asks us to be brave and bold, but preserving a private life empowers us to take those chances. The two-day delay is one technique that can help. So whatever you experience, try to wait 48 hours before posting and sharing because that way you can be present in private with the people you love before calculating how you’re going to publicly position it. And post with purpose. Before you share, ask yourself: Why? What’s the purpose? And most importantly, how does it serve the people you love?
The world isn’t so uplifting towards differences. The world has a way of putting differences in a box and then getting mad when we have the audacity to not fit. Breaking down barriers isn’t always records. Barrier breaking is about not staying in your lane and not being something that the world expects you to be. It’s about not accepting limitations.
It starts with inspiration, and it’s a foundation built upon picking apart what everybody thinks is the right way to do things. It’s an uphill battle, and it doesn’t guarantee big wins or lots of success.
Get the job. Accomplish the feat. Never shrink yourself to fit into this world; you need to be individually you all the time. And then you all have to unite, to come together, to figure out why barriers are there in the first place.