Shivani Cotter

Being A Free-Spirit

Being A Free-Spirit

Those who don’t understand you, shouldn’t have any bearing on what you love about yourself. – Shivani Cotter

It’s the freedom to be who you are and open to others. It’s yours for the taking. You just need to have courage. Often, its assumed that the free-spirited person is someone who is unconventional; the bohemian; the hippie. It’s so unfortunate that living your own identity (if it doesn’t conform to “normal” standards), is considered unconventional…

I want to know who decided that! The free spirit is beautiful! I wish we all embodied that “free-spirited” attitude! How lucky the world would be to have such beautiful minds expressing themselves freely and living according to their own standards and beliefs.

I wonder… how many of us would still be homeowners or how many would travel the world, be nomads, and genuinely experience different cultures with an open mind? Would more people have stereotypical jobs, or would there be more artists in the world? I’ll bet there would be more happy people around us.

I spoke with a friend earlier who told me things I didn’t expect. I had opened myself up and shared something with women I knew. What I shared was not anything crazy. Just an interest of mine. What I didn’t expect was how something so sacred to me could be viewed so differently by others simply because they didn’t understand it. It hurt that a passion of mine had been talked about with giggles. It’s when I realized that there are some things that people may never understand. That’s ok, though. In the future, I can do two things…

  1. Choose to keep certain things about myself silent for fear that people won’t understand, or
  2. Feel free to be myself, express myself, and let my spirit shine; for those that do not understand me, have no bearing on what I love about who I am.

I choose #2.

Which would you choose?

Shivani Cotter

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