I'm proud of myself for being open to new opportunities and ways of expressing myself, instead of blocking myself into only expressing myself in ways people have easily understood in the past for fear of being misunderstood doing something different now.
In life two things I want are freedom and to be understood. Much of the latter is outside my control, but I don't want to throw away my freedom on the basis of not receiving understanding from other people.
Interestingly, the more freely I let myself express my thoughts and feelings, the more likely I am to be understood.
If I am very withholding, a lot of people understand me just a tiny bit but I am otherwise mostly a mystery; I get the best of neither freedom nor understanding. If I am a bit or moderately free, I am very understood by almost everyone, understood by very few. But if I am very free, I am understood still only by the select, but a larger select. I remain misunderstood by others, but it doesn't feel so bad because at least I am getting the best of freedom and even the best I realistically can in being understood, too.
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