Be Your Own Storyteller
I've been hearing a lot lately about how we should be careful with who we are vulnerable with. We should be careful who we share our story with. People need to earn our vulnerability. This is often accompanied by hearing that, under certain circumstances, it is alright to blatantly lie about huge aspects of my life. I'm struggling with that. Yes, I believe that people do need to earn my vulnerability. However I also believe that there is a difference between being vulnerable and being authentic. And I believe in being authentic. I want people to know who I am and I'm not going to lie to people just to appease their narrow sense of comfort. Let me give you a brief example of the difference between authenticity and vulnerability I'm talking about here- Authentic -If someone asks what I spend all day doing I will openly tell them, "I am in day-program getting treatment for an eating disorder." Vulnerable -So...