When You Stop Being Available, Everything Changes – Carl Jung

Carl Jung said that the process of individuation—becoming who you really are—requires you to distance yourself from the collective; that you disidentify from the mask, that you walk alone for a while. And that is exactly what you are doing when you decide to become unavailable. You are not fleeing the world; you are returning to yourself.

It is at this point that you stop being a reactor and become a creator. You cease to be shaped by circumstances and begin to shape your reality from within. The people who feel uncomfortable with your absence reveal that they never wanted you; they wanted the role you played. And now that you no longer fit, they don’t know what to do with you. And that is liberating.

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