Somewhere over the rainbow

Dear My Gorgeous Pretties,

Well, we’ve come to the end of our journey in St. Louis. ‘Twas quite the row if you know what I mean. Traveling this much continues to teach me to remain open to new people & places & ideas, and simultaneously to know yourself so completely that no one’s preconceived notions or perceptions of you alters your knowledge of self.

It’s wild because even without knowing you, but knowing of you, or what they know of you from social media, you’ll find many people will still want you to conform to their idea of who they want you to be as if you owe them something by simply being in their presence. But when you don’t know yourself, that’s when people pleasing becomes the default. And you see this all the time with people making themselves small in order to fit into the crowd, or saying one thing with you in private and then completely changing the narrative when they get in a group dynamic. Classic people pleasing. I don’t want to ruffle anyone’s feathers. But we are allowed to exist, do you hear me? We are allowed to exist, if not for anyone else, for the fulfillment of ourselves.