who are you underneath all that society stuff?

detaching your identity from your 9 to 5, why you should keep your side hustles & the magic of journaling

Some people are proud of their jobs. They proudly show off their job titles like a kid with a name tag (it’s cute), but for the majority of us, we don’t care that much. It’s just something to pay the bills, keep the roof over our heads, put food on the table. But even though it’s more like a necessity rather than a source of real joy in our lives, it can easily get tangled up in our identity and perception of ourselves. It can consume us and leave us wondering if we’re more than an office clerk, a receptionist or a sales associate.

One of the greatest journeys we can go on isn’t perhaps to the other side of the world or up the highest mountain, it’s the one we go on with ourselves. Who are you? When your shift ends, when business closes, when no one is looking, who are you underneath all that expectation and societal standards? Maybe you will find some of these answers on the other side of the world or at the top of the mountain but it’s the journey that is going to give you what you need. Because can you really do anything wholeheartedly in this life without knowing yourself first?