So very true!!!!

The next bravest thing is perhaps to accept and be comfortable with being unashamedly ourselves, even if that falls outside the narrow path of the socially acceptable; the socially expected.

Absolutely, and I have to say that as I get older - I become more and more comfortable being exactly that, and unapologetically too.

Sometimes that can feel pretty lonely. Painful, even. But it's better to be deeply loved by one for the genuine self that you are than to be "loved" by hundreds of socially acceptable platitudes.

It can and it does at times, but as you have said... I would rather have that than the alternative, because I just cannot handle that level of shallow... not even a little bit.

ps. Thank you for the birthday wishes. I know I am a bit late to my own party, but... better late than never haha!

Have a beautiful Tuesday @denmarkguy xxx