What is this "Live Loud" idea?

I never intentionally created the phrase Live Loud, but it seemed to summarize really well the idea that I wanted to live life by. 

The reason I say that is for most of my teen and adult life, close to 40 years, I feel like I kept my voice quiet. I had things I wanted to create but I immediately devalued them to myself. I had ideas or times when I thought something would work better than what was in place, but I would keep my ideas to myself for fear of being wrong. 

Essentially, my adult life had come down to doing the things that I felt I was "supposed to do" so that I wouldn't stand out in a bad way. 

I never once thought about whether I would stand out in a good way had I done those things, or if it mattered if I stood out at all. 

For some reason I had the belief that:

What I thought was incorrect  

What I wanted to create was silly or stupid 

How I wanted to make my living was impractical or pipe-dreams 

How I wanted to love was wrong 

All I had to compare it to was the visible majority and I wasn't the same.

I finally came to a place in my life where I really didn't have a choice but to begin to live authentically or to end it completely.

It's terrible to admit, but really it's just the fact. I had come to a do or die point in my life.

Because I was living so disingenuous to the person that I truly was; because I was in so much denial of my own values, my mind was revolting against me and willing to shut the whole project down. 

I began to document where I was emotionally using tiktok, purely for simplicity sake, and found that having the conversation with myself and reflecting on things led to more actions, like journaling and reading and learning about the way that we think. 

Questioning myself.

As I was talking to whomever was watching one day I spontaneously said, "Live Loud" and I feel like it was a genuine and honest reflection of what I wanted to do with my life in a simple phrase.

Okay, great. But what's it all about right? What IS it to Live Loud?

• To live loud is to not be quiet and to not be quieted. 

                  Even by ourselves.

• To live loud is to embrace the curiosities and passions that we have in our life. 

• To live loud is to be proud of those passions.

                 And of the things we create as a result of those passions. 

• To live loud is to share your voice with whomever wants to hear it. 

                 Always for the betterment of humanity.

Anyone can shout above a crowd to get whatever attention they can muster. But the crowd will always pay more consistent, positive attention to the person who genuinely shares him or her self with no intention of ill-gain or manipulation, but purely to connect with their fellow man and build a community of positivity, love, creation and connection. 

This is Living Loud.