YOU WERE BORN PERFECT, YOU ARE A GODDESS

Your value 

The revelation

If you had a safe with a diamond inside, that is worth billions, how would you behave and how would you feel?

Maybe right now you’re talking about it and even sharing it with people who don’t deserve it. With someone who’s only shown the bare minimum of interest, someone you’re mostly talking to online more than in person. You’re letting them touch your diamond, someone you just met, who took you out to dinner for the first time. You’re selling it cheap, and you don’t realize how happy others are, because they can see it and they know your diamond is worth billions. They’re getting a great deal out of you. You trust people just because they seem nice or charming at first glance. You care a lot about what others think of you, and it affects you deeply. When someone disrespects you or treats you poorly, you get a lump in your throat and tears in your eyes. You can’t defend yourself, and you feel hurt by anything that makes you feel small or undervalued.

You always have high expectations from the outside world. You live hoping things will go a certain way, and then, like clockwork, they don’t, and you fall into depression. And then you get mad at yourself because you suddenly remember you have a diamond worth billions, and you ask yourself: “Why did I do this to myself?” You believe others are responsible for your happiness, that they have the duty to fulfill every one of your desires, as if everything is owed to you. Or rather, as if your well-being depended entirely on other people. You approach romantic relationships with total exclusivity, giving your whole self to the other person, while completely ignoring your own needs and desires. You can’t say no without feeling guilty or like you have to explain yourself. You’re convinced that your goals, your grades, and your diplomas define you and that they’re the only proof of your worth. You feel stuck in places where you don’t feel good, where you’re not treated right, even though, deep down, you know you could go anywhere you want. You feel like you’re falling behind because, for some reason, you’re not at the same level as your classmates. Maybe you failed a year or two, and that makes you feel ashamed. (Let me tell you something, failing a year is actually one of the best things that could have happened to you. You just don’t know it yet. It’s a sign that you need a new direction, that you weren’t made for the work–home–supermarket routine. You need to discover who you are and give your talent a voice.)

You’re ashamed of your roots, your skin color, and the place you come from. You live for others,for circumstances, for how you appear, convinced that your looks are the reason people like you or don’t. You’re scared to take risks, so you shrink every time someone throws an obstacle in your path: a test that didn’t go well, a job you didn’t get, a love that wasn’t returned, things like that. Everything around you gets to you: the way people look at you, the weather, your family’s opinions, what others say behind your back, even your dog’s behavior. You don’t dare to pursue any kind of career because you think that to be successful and make money, you have to follow a set path. If you were truly aware that you had that diamond worth billions, you’d feel completely different. You’d feel safe, backed, protected, because you’d know you carry something of immeasurable value. You wouldn’t be afraid of anything anymore, not of failing, not of winning, because you’d know you’re beyond all of that. Not in a superior way, but in the sense that your life experience doesn’t depend on any of it: not a job, not meeting someone. The little things you go through each day are secondary compared to the experience you carry inside yourself. It’s how you feel, the transformation happening within you, that’s the real experience of your life. Everything else is just an external trigger meant to help that inner shift happen. But in the end, the truth is: reality only happens inside you. You’re not here to transform the rest of the world. You’re not in the rest of the world or its things.

You’re inside yourself.

And that’s it.

Now here’s the big revelation:

That diamond worth billions? It’s not far from you. It’s not something outside of you that you have to earn, deserve, buy, or chase. That diamond of immeasurable value is YOU. Yes, you are that diamond of immeasurable value. Your body is the safe that holds it, your soul. And that soul is you. Yes, you, the one reading this right now. The one who eats, laughs, cries. Who hurts, who dreams, who takes risks, who falls and gets back up. The one who doubts, who always asks “why.” The one waiting for her redemption day. The one who cries and curses herself for being so “stupid.”   The one who wants to understand, but can’t, because something always seems just out of reach. So when you discover yourself, when you remember yourself, you’re not just reclaiming your elegance, you’re finding a diamond of immeasurable value. And that diamond is you. I’m sorry I keep repeating it, but it almost feels crazy to even try and grasp it. Because when you finally see who you are, the truth of who you are as a human being, not just as a soul but as a person living this life, that’s when everything changes. That’s where the transformation happens.

 Now you’re here. Oh damn, you really are here. And I’m taking your hand, and I’m pulling you out. You’re not going to be alone anymore. And more than that: you’ll no longer feel alone. 

Let’s go take back what’s yours, what’s always been yours but got hidden away: your worth.