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Read this when you’re feeling trapped in a life you’re supposed to love

Maybe your life looks good on paper. Maybe you packed the lunches, answered the emails, remembered the birthdays, paid the bills, kept the appointments, showed up to the dinners, folded the laundry, went on the vacations, and generally just built a really wonderful life. But maybe in the midst of all that, there's an ever-present tightness in your chest, like you can't quite get enough air. That feeling doesn’t always mean your life isn't incredible, sometimes it just means that it doesn't fit. Either because you've outgrown it, or it was never really meant for you. It's been ingrained in us that a fulfilled life comes from achieving our goals, reaching the classic milestones, showing up in our relationships in the "right way," and from chronic self-improvement. But a full life, the kind that that gives truly happy people that certain glow comes from living a life of alignment. It's from doing the hard work of learning who you are when nobody's looking, and of building the life you want, even it looks completely unlike the blueprint you were given. Living in alignment might mean disappointing people. Changing your mind. Wanting something quieter. Wanting something stranger. Wanting something that makes very little sense to anyone else. It’s time to stop limping around in the beautiful shoe that everyone else admires, and let yourself run barefoot toward the life that's yours.