I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself. You hide to protect yourself. Charlotte Eriksson
About This Quote

The poet and writer, Emily Dickinson, wrote: “You hide to protect yourself.” In our world, we see people hide themselves from the opinions and views of others. As they hide themselves from the outside world, they become more and more isolated. People with hidden talents and abilities can be happy with who they are and how they live their life. Those who hide themselves also often do so because other people have strong opinions about how they should live their lives.

They believe that other people will only hurt them if they live the way that other people want them to live. This quote says that people have to protect themselves, even from those who love them the most, because no one sees what really matters to them. The truth is that no one can see how someone else should live their life.

The only person who knows what is best for another person is that person himself or herself.

Source: Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories On Leaving & Arriving

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