No risk, no benefit

There is a lot to be said for undoing our own programming. Since we are all products of information being placed into us from birth ostensibly against our will, we often feel powerless and once inside the sheep's pen it can be difficult to find the courage to make our way out.

Coming to terms with an identity that does not fit the conventional narrative is not easy and something I can arrest to. However, the idea of continuing to live under the thumb of a hopelessly irrational society became increasingly horrific the longer I lived. The option to choose became clearer as time went on.

Once we make a leap (no matter how calculated) we wonder how we were ever stuck so long before trying it but that is how life works in that something truly worth having does not materialize without undertaking some risk.