Be Your Own Hero

I’m a dreamer, what can I say? I LOVE to dream about the future- anything and everything. When I was younger I dreamed constantly about falling in love. I mean c’mon what little girl didn’t? Growing up with princess movies where Prince Charming swooped in and saved the day, making anything that was a problem beforehand all the sudden become magically poofed away just by a single kiss. I yearned for this as a little girl. As I got older I wasn’t necessarily picturing a Prince Charming, like with the whole sword and jazz, but I definitely would dream about that one guy that would fight for me no matter what. Love me no matter what. Yup, you may be reading this thinking “Oh my god for real Annie, c’mon”, but I know for a FACT (man or woman reading this) you dreamed about the same things. Falling in love, finding the “right person” to fix all of your problems for you is what our brains have been cultivated into dreaming about!! Let me let you in on a little secret honey, WE must be our own love story before we can possibly partake in a love story with someone else. WE must fix our own problems before we can add someone else into the mix of crazy ass lives. WE must save ourselves before someone else can come in with their love. Let me throw another little curveball way of thinking at you- amongst all this dreaming for our desired Prince Charming (you know the dreaming that revolved around how it would feel to fall in love with him, how we would meet, how we would treat him, how incredible it would feel to be so blissfully and hopelessly captivated by the force of that fairytale love), we forgot to dream about ourselves. Falling hopelessly in love with OURSELVES, dreaming about that moment we are blissfully and hopelessly in love with every single bit of US, thinking about how good it’s going to feel the moment we finally throw in the towel on worrying about every single one of our imperfections, and completely falling HEAD OVER HEELS in love with US. Why is it growing up instead we devote every ounce of our hopes and thoughts to this fairytale scenario of us falling for Prince Charming? Why can’t we be our own damn Prince Charming? Our OWN damn fairytale? Fall for OURSELVES and then one day hopefully fall for someone who builds us up higher than we could ever build ourselves alone? Why can’t WE be our own rescue, fairytale, dream come true- our own HERO? I’m not just talking about that perfect someone either. For you, as a little kid or even now, what you dream about may not be finding that perfect person, but instead finding that perfect achievement. You dream of winning that Oscar, Tony, publishing that book, or getting that promotion- and THEN once you have achieved that, all your problems will be solved. NO! External circumstances- no matter if it is a person, a sum of money, a promotion, an achievement, a move to the Bahamas- CANNOT save you from whatever problems or brokenness you are facing at the moment. Only you, every single beautiful, crooked, broken, shaken, strong part of you, that is alive in this very moment can save yourself from whatever you are facing. We don’t have to rely on external circumstances, people, or even “that perfect someone” to create the life we dream for ourselves. We don’t have to have these other “things” to feel completely and utterly FREE and IN LOVE with life and OURSELVES. We can be our own HERO right now in this very moment. Generate the feelings you wish to see of yourself and the characteristics your “dream self” would embody- then CHOOSE to go be that RIGHT NOW. Once you reach a place in your life where you truly feel with every ounce of yourself that no matter WHAT is happening around you, you WILL be able to save yourself and generate your own joy, confidence, and bliss, your relationships, business, health, and happiness will all SKYROCKET. Placing your ability to create your life and direct your destiny in the hands of yourself, prevents external circumstances from having any power over you. Be your own HERO. You can save YOUR OWN SELF. You know you better than anyone else out there. You don’t like who you are right now? CHANGE IT. You LOVE who you are right now? Keep GROWING on that. You don’t have to be the hero that goes and saves the world, but honey you DO need to be the hero that saves YOURSELF. No one else is designed to do that job but YOU. By taking that first step to save yourself, in the long run you ARE acting as a hero of this world. By allowing yourself to be completely, entirely, and utterly YOU, you are giving off the magic of what it truly means to be YOU into the universe, which the world CRAVES for in a society filled with fake profiles, misleading surnames, false resumes, and lies on lies on lies. That’s pretty damn heroic if you ask me. You are saving the world from the suffering of one more villainous LIE and deceitful MASK that people throw on to “fit in” to society’s standards. The world needs the truest form of YOU- all crooked, crazy, fun, loving, amazing, KICKASS parts of YOU! Which you can only truly let out to the world if you allow yourself to be your OWN hero when you feel your most vulnerable and scared. Go out, shine your light, others WILL try to dim your light and throw massive shade on it, but be your own hero in these situations and protect your special sparkle. Remember not just you, but the WORLD needs your sparkle. Be your own HERO.