Being real is all about learning to walk to your own beat in life. Every life has its own beat, and all beats are beautiful, but finding out what beat your life is might be a little tricky at times. When you turn to the outside world and compare yourself to others, there will always be people who are more intelligent, more beautiful, more popular, more rich than you, but this thinking produces nothing but a dead-end. You are looking at other songs and telling yourself yours isn’t as precious, and this is when you become less real: when you try to fit into another beat.

Socrates said the wisest words two thousand years ago: “Know thyself”. These words, as simple as they are, teach us that before achieving wisdom you must first know your essence, what makes you dance in this world, what makes you cry, what makes you laugh, what makes you afraid. When you can identify your weaknesses and strengths you become more real, and step past others around you swimming against their own life stream.

Feeling like you don’t know what you are doing here on earth some days? Remind yourself of your passions, the things that make you vibrate, make you happy. There is an old Chinese proverb that says, “If you love your work, you will never work a day in your life”. Repeat this to yourself. You are your work, and your work is you. When you love what you do, every moment of life is magical and infused with divinity.

Walking to your own beat involves taking risks, perhaps losing friends that you had for a long time, or feeling lonely for some time. It might involve you quitting a job you hate and spending some time in limbo, waiting for that job that will turn your life into magic again. It could mean that you feel sad for some time as you retrieve lost pieces of your soul.

Cinderella’s story is the tale of how one woman is badly treated by others, and always feels like she is an outsider until the day her real identity is revealed. As she steps into her real vibration, her real beat, the world outside can no longer harm her and she finally achieves completion and happiness. Walking to our own beat is a lot like Cinderella’s story, which involves risks and loneliness and venturing forth into the unknown, hoping the shoe will fit.

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