I ran into one of those random anonymous quotes on Facebook. Normally I scroll past, but this one got my attention: "If you are an ocean, be an ocean. Don't be a pond because people can't swim." I suppose it touches on something I have ruminated about off and on...

I feel a pressure sometimes to become a diminished version of myself to accommodate people. I could give in to the pressure if it's for a very short while. I could put on a (rather bad) act at a party while itching to be home. I can't do something like that for too long. I can't pretend to be something I am not for long. You also want that people you genuinely like or care about know the real you, want the real you. They would love you for who you are, as you are. The rest as they say, don't matter. But when it looks like they don't, when it looks like the real version of you, the ocean, was too much for them... that's when you wonder... if you should have tried being a pond to them? If you should have been less of yourself? If you should have hidden your depths...? But that makes no sense.