mind islands

For the most part, I'm a huge people person but lately I feel like I just can't connect with people and it may be because of my location, my age, and other factors but I feel like mainly this is because I'm finally starting to be honest with myself. It's not that I feel lonely or anything but I just feel isolated in a way. Everyone I know has at least one thing in their life that they're doing to please someone but I have just stopped caring and I am now doing things that I want because I want them and that may be selfish but its the most freeing thing ever. Like I travel because I want to, I create things because I like them (as a musician, this has helped me immensely because sometimes our good tastes don't allow us to create what we want because we don't think its as good as what were listening to) I wear what I want because I feel good in it, etc. Yeah, I'm a weirdo. Yeah, I have a different way of seeing things. But it's how I see them and I was given these eyes so I could see the world myself the way I want to. I think we all need to stop comparing ourselves because we don't realize how much we are robbing ourselves of being the best 'me' we can be by looking at those around us. (That doesn't mean I don't draw inspiration from others..ah I'm confusing myself now) I'm being honest to me, and I have honestly never been happier in my life, and this is such a narcissistic blog post but whatever.