We Are All Equals: words of wisdom

Have you ever felt less than or inferior to someone else because you haven’t created as much, or seen as much of the world, or earned as high of an education or not gotten the same level of recognition as they have? I, for one, know I’ve felt this. Many times. 

A new friend of mine gave me a gold nugget of wisdom recently about this. She told me these limiting beliefs and the act of placing ourselves below someone else we view as more successful means that if that person has to pull us up, they’re having to use their energy when we could use our own energy to place ourselves there to begin with. 

What if we switched our inner dialogue and rewired our minds to operate out of the belief that we are all equals? Because we are. We are all humans existing on earth trying to figure out what this game of life is all about. If we knew we are all equals, bringing to the table different knowledge, skills, perspectives etc., then we could be on the same energy level as everyone else; no one would be greater than or less than us. And that seems like a pretty beautiful existence to be operating out of to me. 

It means as we maneuver through the world and encounter others, we don’t have to fear or feel like we have to justify our work, our worth, our existence. We can unapologetically be our true selves and see the beauty in everyone else as they do the same.

Working in this headspace is so damn refreshing.

Grateful to my friend Meg for planting this seed in my head. I’ve been ruminating on it for a while now and it has changed the way I view myself in comparison to others, or rather, it has helped me not compare myself to others.