Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.
I think it's important to be authentic to who you are, and if you're inauthentic at all, people smell that from a mile away.
The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.
We've got social media now where we can even create an identity for ourselves and show the world an inauthentic highlight reel version of who we are. But I'm drawn to real, not a highlight reel. The world doesn't need to see another plastic Christian pretending they've got it all together.
One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes. "
Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president.
For myself, for a long time. . . maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn't worth hearing, and I think everyone's voice is worth hearing. So if you've got something to say, say it from the rooftops.
These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.
