Speak Up and Tell Your Story - Even if People Run Away

There's truly nothing so terrifying as sharing your most vulnerable self, and for those of us who have had traumatic and abusive experiences speaking up can also be the biggest reason people walk and sometimes run away.

But do it anyway.

I know... abandonment issues... they clench your bowels and freeze your stomach, digestive enzymes suddenly halted like a Jackson Pollock hanging on some billionaire's wall.

But still... speak up, tell your story anyway.

Even if no one wants to hear it.  Trust me... it matters far more than you know.

Being a rebel in 2025 isn't putting 'Pirate' in your bio and then boasting about your latest vacation extravaganza.

Being a rebel today means showing up authentically, even when people you look up to turn tail and run as fast as they can away from you.

So what if your story is sad, maybe even scary.  So what if it makes you the difficult one to talk to.

It's your goddamn story, and it deserves to be told, and even more importantly - someone out there desperately needs to hear it.

Sure... only one in ten thousand or so will think your words are important, sure you will only get 20 views on that video, but because it hit that one person at that exact moment they needed to know they aren't alone, that it's okay if folks run from their stories too... because there's someone else out there with the same kind of fucked up background as them, they will see you as a savior in that moment, because you helped validate their own fucked up life.

As for the other 9,999 out of 10,000 who didn't think your story mattered at the time... what you said, what you told them about your suffering, your abuse, your long walk off a short plank out in the middle of the ocean in the dead of night when no one else was looking, will stick with them, and at some random moment, possibly even years later, they will remember something you said, or a look in your eye, or how you made them feel, and once again... your story will heal some long damaged part in someone else.

In fact, telling your authentic story is today's superpower.  While most people are eating ozempic and applying 3 lbs of makeup, the folks who get raw, who get real, who stop trying to control the message and instead focus on sharing truth will be the lasting heroes of this age.

It's a trap!

For the narcissists who have run our world into the mud, who have toppled our high towers, who have swollen our bellies with bloated worms instead of nutrients... it's a trap. For those who live behind false fronts and a mound of lies, it's a trap.

You see... there's little in life that truly defines a person, yet nothing defines us more than how we treat those we can help.

So, do good when and where you can.  That's how we evolve into the people we want to be.

That's being a rebel in 2025.

Namaste
The Storyteller

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“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

Anne Frank