My Greatest Enemy
It’s midnight and I need to be up in a few hours, but here I am writing a blog. It seems, I have yet again played myself. Actually, that’s a common occurrence, playing myself, it seems I am my biggest enemy. There is no one worse than myself for me, no one more toxic than my own thoughts and my own feelings. We truly are our greatest enemy. Every fear I have, every moment I’ve hesitated has not been because someone else has told me to afraid, or told me to hesitate but rather it is my own self. I am the one that whispers “you can’t do it”, “you don’t belong”, “you are not enough”. I know that if you were to ask those around me, they’ll tell you the opposite-I can do it, I do belong, I am enough. I know this because they have told me, in moments of weakness when I breakdown and let the voices inside my head consume me, those around me remind me of myself. And to be honest, I tell my friends the same thing, “you can do it”, “you do belong”, “you a