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posted August 25, 2016 at 4:31pm UTC tagged with
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"I babysat this six year old, and I was wearing shorts today..
and my scars were showing, I guess. He poked them and he said, "I know how those got there." I replied, "How?" He looked at me with a straight face and he said, 'I've seen them before. My big sister had them, and she said mean people put them on your body when they weren't nice to you, because when people are mean to you, you end up being mean to yourself. My big sister went away. I don't know where she went. Mommy said she's on a happy vacation somewhere, because she was too sad here. I miss her. Don't go on a vacation, please.'"
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Imagine if all you ever wanted was attainable. You walk into a store and a cluster of acne ridden teenagers stalk a aisle marked desires. Shelves upon shelves hold compact white cans, all with discreet labels reading off things like "beauty" and "self-acceptance". "Talent" is in high demand.
And then one day, whilst reading the newspaper, you notice a story about a girl - a mere seventeen years old - who had overdosed on beauty. Her name was Catherine. and she had died in her bedroom, surrounded by a city of confidence and charisma.
You read that only beauty was found in her bloodstream, and then you think about what a beautiful corpse she will be.
Imagine if everything you ever wanted was attainable, and then it ended up killing you.
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i wonder
WHAT IT WOULD
feel like to be AT PEACE WITH MYSELF.
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An over-thinker, a go-with-the-flow
type, a singer, an athlete, a writer, a believer, a follower, a runner, a single mother, a daughter without a father, a girl with anxiety, a man with a broken heart, an over-emotional type, a person who bottles everything inside. It doesn’t matter where you come from or what burdens you carry—you need to stop apologizing for who you are. This is a dizzying world. There are so many wonderful things and people, but so much imperfection. There will be moments that build you up and moments that break you, love that makes you falter and love that makes your heart sing. There will be people you learn from and people you lose, pain you experience, and euphoria that makes you forget everything else. But in all of this, you will grow. You will shift, you will change, you will try to find your path, and you will create yourself, again and again as you go. This is normal. This is life. Unfortunately, as this happens, you will come across opposition. You will meet people whose personalities won’t mesh well with yours, you will meet individuals who disagree, or even those who flat-out dislike you. And you will think you have to change for them. But you don’t. Ever. You will forever be changing, but not for another person. Not for the sake of making things easier, not because you feel forced, and not because of love. Your existence on this earth is impermanent and your time is too short to let others’ opinions change the way you feel about yourself. So don’t let them. Stop apologizing for who you are and just be. Be silly, be strange, be happy, be crazy, be independent, be in love, be unafraid, be nervous, be strong, be okay with leaning on someone else. Be whatever the hell you want. Be you. It’s okay to change, to become something else, to return to your roots or run as far as you can from them. It’s okay to make mistakes, to apologize, to forgive, to let go. It’s okay to be all the things you are and be them proudly. So please, do just that.