inner voice

What does it mean to be true to your inner voice? This question entices many responses. Does it mean that everything we think has to be done, said, or acted upon? If this were the case, the world would be full of chaos. Being true to your inner voice, in my opinion, simply means being able to feel comfortable with your inner voice. Radiolab’s podcast on Clive, demonstrates an excellent form of truth to an inner voice. Clive, an old man who suffers from the worlds worst case of amnesia and who cannot remember anything that happens within five minutes, is able to conduct a choir and is amazed when he watches himself on video doing this. Clive declares, “This is the strangest thing I have ever seen.” I thought this exemplified being true to ones inner voice because Clive is clearly, regardless of his memory loss, still true to his inner voice and passions. Clive’s story helped me understand that an inner voice isn’t simply the voice we hear when we read to ourselves, or the devil and angel on our shoulders. Our inner voices are the unique passions our subconscious manages to never let go of. I believe that our inner voices work as a stream of consciousness, so what our inner voices say is what our subconscious wants. After watching The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, I felt more comfortable answering my own question. The film helped me recognize that an inner voice is our truest self, it’s the electricity that keeps our passions running. We don’t acknowledge how powerful our inner voices are until it becomes impossible to voice them. This film proved that being true to ones inner voice is simply being comfortable with it. Jean-Dominique Bauby demonstrates an understandable amount of disturbance and stress in the beginning of the film. He didn’t realize why no one could hear what he was saying. Once he realized he had Locked In Syndrome and was completely paralyzed, his inner voice became dominant and less censored. This feature in the film provided a sense of