(0bvi d0n’t 0wn the muuusic 🙌🏾) This dance started as a freestyle in 2020 in my living room & I wanted to make a better quality vid of it, so I gave this a shot- Not bad! (though I’m def outta dance shape/ still feel like way more of an intuitively strong mover in my opinion, dancer friends don’t come for me!) Concept-wise: I’ve always felt misunderstood & even further felt like not very many seek to actually get to know you past whatever perceptions of you they’ve decided are true in their head. I also feel like people tend to think my level of kindness isn’t real, that my level of contentment/happiness with myself & my life doesn’t take constant inner work, & that I get put on this perceived pedestal of “having it all together”, “being so strong” and not needing the same level of community, encouragement, reassurance, etc that other people desire/need. But as I grow and learn I realize more & more that it doesn’t really matter if everyone understands you. It just matters that YOU understand who you are & keep trying to walk in your own authenticity regardless of what anyone else tries to paint you to be. The people meant to stick around & who seek to form honest, lasting connections will always find you. I will say, however...the ending of this video is how I’ve felt on the inside for many years. I am really thankful that over the past couple years I finally feel more like the version you saw before the invisible tears that pulse underneath that big encouraging smile. Most tears that fall down my face these days are grateful ones. Grateful for choosing to continue to exist in a pretty difficult world full of pretty difficult energies. I’m not a quitter, I have a big light I’m meant to spread as far & wide as I can, & I’m finally understanding that it’s ok to know where people come from but still walk away from what you don’t deserve/patiently move forward toward what you do. Inner peace is a journey. Firm boundaries & fully walking in your authenticity/power is a journey. Trust & faith in the universe & in yourself is a journey. But all those journeys are worth the leap, & I’m ready to keep leapin’! L E T ‘S G O 🖤 🎥 :@danielsliwa_media