The Greatest Thing in the World Is to Know How to Belong to Yourself When was the last time you made a decision without worrying what other people would think? Not a big decision necessarily. Maybe just what you wanted for lunch. Or whether to skip a party. Or what to say in a meeting. Small moments where you caught yourself editing your instincts before anyone else even heard them. We all do it. The self-censoring, the second-guessing, the mental arithmetic of approval. And somewhere in all that noise, we lose track of a quieter question: What do I actually want? This isn't a new problem. Your grandparents wrestled with it. Your parents still do. But each generation faces a different version of the same struggle—how to stay true to yourself while living among other people. What It Actually Means Belonging to yourself doesn't mean becoming a hermit or refusing to care what anyone thinks. That's just rebellion for its own sake, and it gets exhausting. It means knowi...