At some point in your life, someone gave you a name, a role, a set of instructions and you accepted it. You built an entire existence around it. A career. A belief system. A personality that fit neatly into a world that never truly saw you.
This version of you, is the programmed version?
This version of you, wakes up every morning with a feeling you can’t quite name. An unease that follows you into every room. A weight you can’t explain, no matter how much success, approval, or distraction you pile on top of it.
This Is Where Most People Die
Not physically. But spiritually. They stop asking questions. They stop imagining new versions of themselves. They stop fighting for something that feels real.
Instead, they settle. They tell themselves: This is just how life is. This is what being an adult means. This is good enough. And so, they stay, they shrink; they begin the slow decay into oblivion.
Do You Even Remember Who You Were Before the World Told You Who to Be?
If not, go back. Not to the version of you that people respected. Not to the version that got everything “right.” Not to the version that played by the rules and did everything “correctly.”
Go back to the version of you that felt wild and terrifyingly alive. The version that asked too many questions. The version that wasn’t afraid of being wrong. The version that hadn’t yet learned how to shrink.
Because that version? That version is who you are meant to be.
So, Here’s the Truth No One Will Say to You
If you don’t burn the script, it will bury you alive. You will wake up one day, too far gone to rewrite anything. You will look at your own reflection and realize the fire is gone. You will sit in a life you never wanted and wonder when it became too late to change.
There Are Only Two Endings to This Story
1️⃣ Wake up. Realize the weight you’ve been carrying isn’t success—it’s suffocation. Decide that your story isn’t over yet. And burn the script before it buries you.
Or—
2️⃣ Keep going. Keep being who they expect you to be. Keep following the script like a well-trained actor. Keep waiting for something to change while you slowly, quietly, die inside the life you never really wanted.
Unless you decide-right now-that you will not die inside a story you never wrote.
Unless you Rewrite the script, burn the old one, and start again. Unless you do that, otherwise, this is where most people die, and spend the rest of their life wondering what happened.
Don’t say, I didn’t warn you.
#WhoWereYouBeforeTheWorldNamedYou
