Life isn’t some frantic race where you have to spend every waking second trying to beat the person sitting right next to you. Why do we waste so much energy trying to outrun or outshine everyone, acting like we’re too cool, too modern, or too educated for where we came from? We fool ourselves into thinking that outgrowing our roots makes us look bigger, but to be completely honest, you don’t prove anything by pretending you just spawned out of thin air with zero history.
Whatever you end up doing with your life, however big your dreams get, or whatever massive success you chase, none of it is about putting on an empty show to impress strangers. All of us start from scratch. All of us start from our roots, and whatever we are today is because of that foundation. It’s simply about knowing who you are. Your culture and the ground that raised you aren’t chains holding you back; they are the exact reason you have two solid feet to stand on in the first place.
No matter how far we go, what heights we reach, or whatever we become, we just need to respect what made us. The world will constantly try to push you into forgetting, but when everything else gets noisy or falls apart, your roots are the only thing that will actually protect you for life.
~Janya
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