There is one choice in life we get to make all for ourselves and that is who we want to be. There are consequences to what we choose but regardless, it is our choice. Despite all the taboos and morays of society, we are ourselves first, and then if we choose, we are part of the community. We only get to live this life of ours one time and intentionally holding ourselves back with prohibitions and inhibitions out of some perceived fear or duty to convention is irrational. I am not saying that all things need to be done with an air of disregard for convention, but what I am saying is that this is our life and what we do with it is our story, not something to be regulated and conformed. If we don't have the panoramic view that all things in existence are here for us to experience and know, then we are sheltering ourselves from what is here in existence. Why do that? We are here for the learning and discovery of what life is about, not to just exist in some stable manner that denies our senses and our indestructible curiosity. That we are born is indicative of the will to live we have endured, so why treat life as a bookmark instead of as a book? We are not just breeders of life, we are discovers of what life exists within our known boundaries and beyond. Some have irrepressible motivations to understand and experience and some have less of these qualities, however we all share some degree of them. Let's not lose sight of what we each are capable of and let's not defer our lives to some sedentary existence that denies what we can become. The only thing holding us back from what we are is ourselves and some misplaced fear about whether we deserve to be ourselves.
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