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What this is called is Shadow. In the next chapter we're going to talk about how we

identify our shadow and how we then use that to uncover the parts of ourselves that

we don't want to see. The parts of ourselves that we actively avoid and we're not

aware of.

As mentioned earlier my journey started with an internal crisis. I didn’t know who I

was, where I was going, what I was doing, or how I was going to turn things around.

What did I do?

I got curious.

How do I do this thing called life? How do I find out how to ‘do life’ when no one has

ever really shown me how?

It’s not that I don’t have parents or role models. It is just that I knew that what they

had was not what I wanted. Their choices in life didn’t resonate with me. I often found

myself wondering, what was it all for? If that was the end goal, why bother? It isn’t

just my parents though.

It seemed to me that wherever I looked in my life, all I saw were a lot of people

dissatisfied with their lives and the world that we lived in. Owning a house, having a

family, and building a career. Working for someone else seemed to bring so much

emptiness to so many people around me. It made me realise that in order for me to

find what I need for fulfillment in my life I needed to find another way.

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