Vulnerability; a Conscious Choice
Every day is a battle, small or big, choices or circumstances. It is a constant loop of decision making struggling to choose the best — the best of us, our work, our partner or anything and everything. No matter the reason for their arrival, we are taught to make the best out of situations.
“Life is a matter of Choices, and every choice you make makes you”, said John C Maxwell.
Making choices is something we cannot avoid. Nevertheless, having been taught to make these choices, we tend to always look at them as a rational score that we have to keep up. It’s a number target for us. However, there is so much more than a target that needs our thought.
I believe that there is a bigger and different perspective that requires us to dig deep. To explore the side of us that we like to keep hidden. We have a ‘Pandora Box’ in our loft that we chose not to bring out during a party because this box makes us Vulnerable.
The fight against Vulnerability is the battle we fight constantly. The urge to keep ourselves safe; is Vulnerability. Anything uncertain makes us vulnerable, and the thought of being vulnerable makes our head frenzy. Having come across lots of material on Vulnerability, and the one thing Brene Brown said will always be on top. She said, “Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice, to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”
It is about the choice to show up and be real — the choice, to be honest, to ourselves more than anything else. The choice to let our true selves be seen and allow the world to embrace who we are.
Being Vulnerable makes us creative, stay courageous, makes us empathetic and outrageously helps us connect to people and situations. So how about we choose to be vulnerable, to embrace uncertainty instead of fighting it. To love the harder side of ourselves and to let it speak for us. If being Vulnerable is going to make this world emotionally connected, then let us be vulnerable.
Vulnerability will make us stand out, good or bad. Let us learn to make the best of our vulnerabilities because they are so much of a part of who we are.
