Compartmentalized

I started this blog as a way to simply be me... out of the box. I feel that in the past I often compartmentalized myself according to my surroundings, the people I am interacting with or the audience I am speaking to. Perhaps this is a good self-marketing tool but I just got tired of stopping short in certain contexts or belittling myself in certain contexts. Basically I realized I was selling myself short. It is particularly strange coming back to and living in a place where this tendency seemed to form in my life..... somewhere around 13 years old. Sound familiar? It is something we all go through. We live in a society that fosters compartmentalized thinking and acting, constantly striving to figure out where we fit in. Why is it that people are so scared of someone they can't quite figure out? Why are we ourselves scared when we don't live within our own accepted box? So we move from one box to the next, maybe we grow out of that box or just suddenly find it uncomfortable so we go in search of the next box. What happens when we start to live outside of the boxes, when we are just ourselves box free? This is living in uncertainty, finding a home in the void, unpackaged and unlabeled. It can be a scary, unbounded, confusing and overwhelming place, but worth at least a visit. It is only in this place that we can taste the true essence of who we are. I encourage you for just one day to find this place outside of your current box. Find the courage to say something friendly you normally wouldn't say, drive a different route to work, do something spontaneous, surprise someone with a gift, tell someone something about yourself they may never know otherwise, start a new hobby you've been putting off...... just get outside of your box, there is a big world out there.