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The Thinning Mask

Evangeline Koru
7 min readJun 16, 2024

Or the Promotion of You as a Powerful Spiritual Being

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I was the first in my family to go to a four-year college. The first to study and live abroad, to learn foreign languages, and so many other milestones that I blew through at an early age.

I was an oddity in my family, always off on some grand adventure. I was the child that my ancestors would never believe was a possibility in their bloodline.

I studied in a place that is currently under a dictatorship. I lived in a country where the characters aren’t even readable unless you study them. I never took the easy road. My parents always told me that I could do anything I wanted to do, and I believed them. The world truly was my oyster.

I was fearless all of my life, that is, until I started “adulting” in my late twenties. Soon, I started working to support myself so that I could live on my own without roommates. I took each job based on how much more money I could make, whether it would advance my career, and whether the opportunity would look impressive on my resume.

Little did I know, I was designing more masks to hide my true desire to be a creative. I thought that if I followed my passions, then I’d be broke and alone. So, I started to treat my creative projects as hobbies, not as realistic goals to develop my dream to be an author. I started networking to…

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Evangeline Koru
Evangeline Koru

Written by Evangeline Koru

Evangeline Koru (she/her) is a life coach and spiritual advisor. Learn more at: https://evangelinetheoracle.com/

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remove all of your masks so that you can be totally free.

Yesssss! Love this Evangeline and I feel you. Capricorn myself and went through similar feelings.....and woke up in my early 40s. Big hugs lovely! 🤗🌹💖🎶💃🥰

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