The Person We've Been Waiting For
Have you ever thought about what it might be like to wake up one day and be just yourself? Fully and completely. All the baggage stripped away—everything the world told you you’re supposed to be, from your parents to your peers, to the television, the media, to your boss, to the stranger. It’s all gone.
You wake up one day, and you are you in your essence. The you that you are meant to be. The beautiful version of you that radiates with calmness, peace, and love.
Who is that person?
Imagine calling upon that person now. Wake up, you tell them. I need you. We need you.
Imagine they listened. Imagine they get up from their chair with a new vibrance, a new energy, a new mission to show the world exactly who they are.
What would happen if you stripped off every single layer of armor, every single piece of molding, to truly bring that most beautiful, vulnerable, curious, loving self to the world?
What would happen if we all did?
Where would the world be if our loving innocence led the way?
Where would the world be if we no longer feared what others thought?
If we no longer felt we had to be somebody we’re not?
Where would the world be if we could simply… be?
We don’t just hide behind the armor we wear, we forge it. Piece by piece, from every criticism that stung, every rejection that scarred, every moment we learned it was safer to hide than to reveal. The weight of it becomes so familiar that we forget we’re carrying it at all.
Until something inside whispers that radical invitation: “Wake up.”
It’s difficult to know who you are when everything feels unstable. We are walking on shaky ground, unsure of what might happen next. But this is precisely the time to wake up, to tell that person deep inside: enough hiding.
Yes, that person is scared. Yes, that person doesn’t want to take the risk. But the world needs us to risk.
So wake up. We must wake up.
Hiding isn’t the answer. Protecting ourselves in a shell no longer works. We’re not turtles. We’re swans. It’s time to fly.
Our most authentic selves aren’t hiding because they’re weak, but because they’re powerful. They’re the part of us that still believes in possibility, that still feels wonder, that still trusts in love despite all evidence to the contrary.
This is the quiet revolution: not changing the world through force, but through the simple, profound act of showing up as who we actually are. In a time when everything external feels unstable, perhaps the most radical act is to turn inward—not to escape the world, but to find the part of ourselves that can meet it with genuine presence.
Swans aren’t born graceful. They’re vulnerable...awkward, and they must quickly learn to navigate both the depth of the waters and the vastness of the sky. Their beauty isn’t in their perfection—it’s in their willingness to simply be who they are, fully present in whatever element they find themselves in.
Your authentic self is waiting. Not for the perfect moment, not for when you feel ready, but for right now. When everything is unsteady, when uncertainty is certainty—this is when that truest version of you is needed most.
So wake up. We are waiting for exactly who you are. We need you. You need you.
Beautiful reminder.
Beautiful reminder as I start my day.