Stop following others.

Inês de Matos
1 min readMay 23, 2022

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I feel nowadays everyone is trying to follow something even when they say they don’t want to follow the “script”. There is this fake concept of freedom that people are trying to badly seek. Or this fake concept of happiness that people deeply desire achieve. What we surely know is that these two words are subjectively defined by each of us in different ways. If so, you don’t need to take others advice all the time. What people share that worked for them it doesn’t necessarily mean that will work for you. You have your own context, your own path, your own mistakes, your own findings. None of those will ever be shared in the true essence. You need to be conscious of what kind of value you want to get from other people’s experiences, because it can either really help you or just cause you frustration. You have the right to live as you want and not feel pressured by what society in general tries to influence into your life.

As the saying goes, the most valuable things cannot truly be shared. You can share the experience, you can share your findings, you can share all your knowledge but the feeling, the learning, the absorption of the value of it will always be yours alone

Stop following others

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Inês de Matos

Software Engineer @ Web Summit. I try to bring humanity into a such digital world.