There\u2019s this quiet pressure\u2014especially on women\u2014to shrink our desires. Be reasonable. Be realistic. Be low-maintenance, easy to love, easy to keep. Wanting too much is treated like a flaw. Wanting too much love, too much life, too much adventure, attention, success, softness. We\u2019re told to tone it down. To not take up so much space with our dreams or our feelings. To not ask for more than what\u2019s handed to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But why not want it all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why not be the kind of person who refuses to settle for the bare minimum\u2014in love, in friendships, in the way you walk through the world? Why not want big love, real joy, a career that lights you up, and mornings that don\u2019t feel like survival mode? Why not be the one who risks embarrassment for honesty? Who loves hard and loud and without shame?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve been told I feel too deeply, want too openly, care too much. I used to take that as criticism. Now I see it for what it is: proof that I\u2019m awake. Proof that I\u2019m not afraid to live with my whole chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because what\u2019s the alternative? Numbing yourself down into something more palatable? Cutting pieces off your personality until you fit into a version of life that never even fit you to begin with?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No. I\u2019d rather be too much than not enough for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So why not want too much?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The people who get it won\u2019t be afraid of your hunger\u2014they\u2019ll match it. The life that\u2019s meant for you won\u2019t ask you to tone it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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