We will always be spending more time trying to protect the Real person we are than enjoying life. We may feel protection from the outside world in that dark, empty closet, but we have also shut out the World that can really help us. That is not Loving ourselves. Loving ourselves as we are is how God loves us. So why not love ourselves that way and rejoice in who we are born to be.
Life is too short to be in that closet under a bunch of dirty clothes.
I yearn to be free of these bonds of falsehoods, whatever they may be. Truthfully, it is no one's business as to who I am. I have to love myself as I am.