Change and suppression

To not listen to the internal voice is to empower a wilful deafness. A deliberate shunning of something that is, at essence, what makes you, you. Shunning yourself in favour of another.

The danger in that, hopefully, is apparent.

There will only ever be one unified you. Therefore, to shun that causes a fissure which can lead to great displacement and discomfort.

It requires great strength of repression to forcefully turn down your own voice. And yet, every day, that’s what the majority do. So conditioned to the confidence with which external voices present themselves that they’re willing to close their ears off to their own expression.

Nothing good can come of that. Repression requires a strength equal to or greater than the desire that gives rise to the impulse to follow one’s own path.

Perhaps then honour the internal voice as the only guide that has, or ever will, stick by you - it has done so from birth and will till death.

To shoo it away is to pour light on your own shadow, offering brightness only temporarily, but ultimately extinguishing your very presence.