AA meeting, and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Why is being seen so hard? It’s hard because when you decide to live into your true self—your strengths and weaknesses, your light and shadow, your superpowers and your kryptonites—you are revealing yourself to the world, and you can now be touched. Loved, rejected, embraced, ignored . . . and all of the other complicated interactions that come with human relationships. This is the exciting and terrifying proposal in an everyday life, so that some of us are questioning whether revealing yourself is worth it.
