The Ugly Duckling explores the human condition through the difficult process of steppingoutside of one’s comfort zone. The mind often struggles with change, erecting naturalbarriers and experiencing discomfort in never experienced situations. Unconsciously, wemake sure to remain anchored to the starting point, in a known cone shadow that preventsus from betting on ourselves.
These difficulties generate great fear, lay the foundations for a bad development of one’sself-perception and therefore prevent self-esteem. At that point we believe only in thenegative perception that the community sends us, convinced we have no value in anabsolute sense.
The identity that is attributed to us get into the part to the point that it does not matter howmuch you try to escape far: it follows us like a shadow.
Until the day when a doubt arises: are the others really hindering our path or are we theones who have chosen to live at the boundaries of our potential? Who really drew the line?
