Choosing to experience exclusion as a form of liberation
... rewiring the way we perceive social rejection ...
Unfortunately, being excluded is the price you pay when you’re authentically YOU.
No performance, no filter, just completely free in thought and free in expression. When you no longer attempt to neatly wrap yourself up to fit into someone else’s box. 𝜗ৎ
Being misperceived is the price you pay when you’re willing to say an uncomfortable truth (whether subjective or objective) that challenges one’s worldview or narrative. You open yourself up to the misconceptions and projections of others not willing to see the ‘other’ simply as a mirror.🪞
A mirror that could bring profound understanding, if only we could see disagreement as a driving force of intellectual growth. Instead of letting it become one of the ways in which we divisively compartmentalize and misjudge each other.
Have we lost the ability to hold opposing viewpoints?
Have we lost the ability to acknowledge the importance and validity of each individual’s experience?
Exclusion is the price you pay for not conforming. For not prioritizing social acceptance over your own personal freedom, autonomy, and beliefs. For writing your own script rather than performing the role that another wishes you would stick to.
When you dismantle these molds, you become someone that is undefinable. Someone that shatters illusions. When one’s own identity feels threatened by you, be prepared for the projections… the labels… the slander…. the attempt to define you anyways.
The more exclusion you experience, the more immune you become to division tactics and the less you need external validation. Allowing people to be wrong about you is liberation.
Know yourself. And see yourself in others. Always. ₊ ⊹
Facing rejection is the risk you take when you no longer water yourself down to be more palatable for others. Alienation is the fear you have to face when you dare to be yourself and speak your mind.
We live in a system that feeds off our division and disconnect from one another. But what if instead of villainizing and dehumanizing each other over perceived faults or fragments of truth, we instead chose to always see the humanity in one another.
We are called to be righteous, not self-righteous.
Within each conflict is an opportunity to either listen and be open-minded or to let our differences outweigh our empathy and ability for true understanding.
When we recognize that we’re all trying our best based on our own level of consciousness, this makes room for deeper awareness and compassion. ♡
Maybe experiencing exclusion and social rejection is not that unfortunate after all... Because fortunately there are people out there who are in tune with your frequency and will love and accept you for you. Who will honor the sacredness of your being and can recognize the value in the millions of perspectives that we each experience reality from.
So instead of seeing exclusion as a purely negative experience, maybe we should start seeing exclusion as a shift towards alignment.
A step closer to experiencing genuine acceptance and deeper connection.
Instead of internalizing this feeling of alienation and rejection… We can focus on the feeling of liberation that can come from being outcast.
There is freedom in allowing people to misjudge and misunderstand you.
So let us welcome exclusion and wear it as a badge of honor.
The honoring of the self.
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Truth! You can be authentically yourself and be excluded and judged and see it in a totally different life than a negative connotation. But I also find that I see the beauty and others some people who have not been privy to exclusion cannot see. It makes me take it deeper look into everybody to find the good and everyone and for that I’m totally grateful for being excluded because I don’t want to conform I want to be my weird quirky authentic self what you see is what you get and you can do that without being rude. You can agree to disagree. I think life is much better live on this side of the fence.