Don’t be ashamed about your situations.

Whatever your situation may be, you must never feel ashamed of yourself. We are born into a context that has already been predetermined. You do not choose your body, your country, your year of birth, your Era, your family, your social status, or your lineage. You cannot choose any of this. What you are given is what you must face. You must walk through it, and reborn a second time.

Everything that has happened to you until now may simply be the effect of a cause for which you are not responsible. This is why you must never feel ashamed if you come from a difficult family. You must not feel ashamed of your origins, or of having no money in your pockets while you struggle to build stability. You must not feel ashamed if you are not yet who you want to be, or who society wants you to become so that you can be classified as belonging to a certain social level. These are all illusions. Mental and social constructions that imprison unaware people, leaving them to live in a vegetative, zombified state, moving forward out of inertia rather than true will.

When you regain your awareness, you understand that the real value of a person lies in who they are inside: their soul, their way of being, their principles, their values, their inner love and strength. That is the real treasure. And that is why you must never be ashamed of being born in a disadvantage, because what truly makes the difference is your courage to rebuild yourself on your own.

Use your pain as your engine, as your motivation. Act, move forward even if you feel negative emotions like shame or fear. Those emotions may be more familiar to you than positive ones. The only way to move from a mind conditioned by past trauma to a healed and free mind is through courage. Only courage can heal you.

So even if you are afraid or ashamed, take a deep breath and do what you know you must do: find a temporary job to become independent, work on a project in parallel, eat better, cut toxic relationships with friends, partners, relatives, family members, parents, exercise regularly, sleep better, reduce your time on social media and use it more intentionally, choose something you like and improve until you become excellent at it.

You already know what you need to do. Do it.

No one has the right to humiliate you or to push you away from what you need to accomplish, and anyone who tries does not truly care about you. Put aside the foolish ego born from fear and open your mind and heart to possibility.

If you do not have children or animals depending on you, you have no idea how lucky you are. You can go anywhere. You have all the time in the world to invest in what will make you exceptionally successful. Use your time to become who you want to become. No more excuses. No more crying. No more postponing your life.

You are the master of your life. You are the one living within yourself, no one else.

So why should you feel ashamed of life’s adversities? Out there, no one has a perfect life, especially those who try hardest to appear as if they do. Do not let appearances deceive you. The truth is more valuable than anything else in the world because it makes you free and untouchable.

Circumstances are never shameful when we face them with dignity.