Reconcile the Misfit

Reconcile the misfit in you: It’s easy to be a bit too much of everything in this world: Too bright, too capable, too intense. And the conclusion we make – usually way back when we’re still kids – is that something must be wrong with us. We somehow have ended up as misfits.
Then, we do a lot to hide, mitigate, calibrate and compartmentalise to evolve into the perfect adult, adapted to the world and its expectations around us. But inside, we stay the same bright, capable and intense child of the past, and that’s exactly why we keep feeling like a (secret) misfit.
Imagine you could reconcile the misfit in you instead of having to manage it with lots of energy. Especially if you’re on the far end of some of those scales. It’s exhausting to hide who you really are! And it can be just as exhausting to put it on display extra hard, which some of us tend to do, too (*looks innocent*).
I speak to either of those ends in this category, because true reconciliation happens somewhere in the messy middle and having been entrenched in our strategies to hide or flaunt isn’t as easily accessible as we would imagine it to be.