There is no tribe

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The amateur dreads becoming

who she really is because she

fears that this new person will be

judged by others as “different.”

The tribe will declare us “weird”

or “queer” or “crazy.”

The tribe will reject us.

Here’s the truth:

the tribe doesn’t give a shit.

There is no tribe.

That gang or posse that we

imagine is sustaining us by

the bonds we share is in fact a

conglomeration of individuals

who are just as fucked up as

we are and just as terrified.

Each individual is so caught

up in his own bullshit that he

doesn’t have two seconds to

worry about yours or mine,

or to reject or diminish us

because of it.

When we truly understand

that the tribe doesn’t give a

damn, we’re free.

There is no tribe, and there

never was.

Our lives are entirely

up to us.

~ Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro (2012)

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