You are a Constant Unveiling

Let yourself pull back the layers and keep discovering more of who you are with each passing day.

I believe there are two personas we all struggle with everyday. The person who is in alchemy with the universe and the person who is seemingly not. It’s our work to notice when we are not. Be curious enough to discover why because life is a constant unveiling of who you are at your core.

I’ve learned this over time. At three years old I was a curious child. When I walked out into the big wide world I wasn’t scared. I wanted to go out there. I would touch the windowpane inside my bedroom and watch the world outside wondering how I could get to know it. The uncertainty didn’t daunt me and I was only interested in what could be experienced in that moment. As I grew older things changed. At 17 I was starting to absorb other people’s ideas of who I should be and slowly drifted away from that 3 year old who lived bravely in the unknowing.

I stopped getting to know myself. I assumed what I was being told was the truth. I was a Punjabi girl who would follow all traditions, stay coloring in the lines, never upset an elder or my parents no matter what the cost to me, pursue an education and get a good job, find a Punjabi man to marry, and it continued on and on. There was always another f’ckin rule to follow. Eventually it seemed like there was no more room…