I quit my job.

At 35, I’m starting all over again.

There are a myriad of reasons that merged and resulted in my quitting my job as an educator. I could blame circumstance, fatigue, stress, incompatibility and many other things. And they’d make for some good excuses.

The truth, however, is I was ignoring God, the universe, my inner voice like Jonah did when he fled hard from Nineveh.

A recurring theme in my life is an obsessive need to persist in situations and circumstances – even if they no longer serve me.

That is exactly what I did. Because that is what I ‘should’ do. What is expected of me. What is acceptable.

By whom, you may ask? Everyone but me. I was living life in a disingenuous way out of fear of being other-ed. I almost lost myself completely.

It took deteriorating health; living in a constant state of anxiety, stress, depression and the encouragement of close confidants for me to choose myself. The journey has been far from linear or what I thought it would be.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change

Tony Robbins

But it has lead me here, to you. I don’t know where this journey will ultimately lead, but I decided to create this platform to challenge the normative ideas of how we ought to live, ought to move and be perceived in society.

What if there is a different way to live? And what if by being true to ourselves, we help reshape culture and cultural norms to be more inclusive?

love,

Rumbi