Safe in Chains

Why do we try so hard to fit into a mold?

Each of us carries a spark of uniqueness, yet we are told, conditioned, to believe there is one model of success, one shape of life we must aspire to.

This is nothing but illusion, hogwash wrapped in authority.

The “mold” is presented as security, as belonging, as the path to worth. But what it really demands is that we trade authenticity for imitation.

We become carbon copies, a million replicas chasing the same fabricated goal, mistaking conformity for oneness.

True unity is not found in sameness. It is found in the harmony of difference, when we allow ourselves to live as we are, not as the mold dictates.

To break free of this conditioning is not rebellion for its own sake; it is reclamation. It is the return to authenticity.

We do not need to fit a mold to be whole.

We need only to be.

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Published by diestl

Freemason and father of two boys and a girl, living in Los Angeles, California. Emerson College Alumni always looking for a new adventure. Eight years of Catholic school, now Taoist leaning trying to be Zen in my journey of life.

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