Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

172 BRIANNA WIEST
Nobody is looking at you the way you think they are. Nobody
is thinking about you the way you wish they would.
They are looking at themselves. They are thinking about
themselves.
They are reading themselves.
This isn’t sad; it’s freeing. This should be the crux of your
ultimate liberation.
The truth is that you have nobody to prove wrong but
yourself. The people from your past probably didn’t disapprove
of you nearly as much as you feared they did.
This closure is for you. This growth is for you. This change
is yours. This is you vs. you, you meeting you, you seeing
you for the first time. This is about you becoming who you
know you can be. This is about you finally living up to your
potential.
But mostly, this is about you recognizing that you were
not your best self before.
You didn’t behave the way you wish you would have.
You didn’t do what you should have.
You weren’t what you hoped you’d be.
Whenever we want desperately to prove someone else