I Used To Care About What Others Thought About Me.
Until I learned to Love And Accept Myself As I Am
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I never really fit in with people. I don’t follow style, makeup, hair, fashion or home trends. Many say my thinking is strange, and I speak my mind way too sharp.
I spent most of my young life being bullied.
I was bullied mostly for being different.
I was classed as:
- Too soft
- Too sensitive
- A strange thinker
- Too reliant
- An incapable thinker
- Out of fashion
And as someone who did things differently
I spent my young life covering up who I really was; forever changing everything from makeup, fashion to behavior as a desperate attempt to stop the bullying and be liked.
I have a message for the world:
I woke up. I got badly hurt for things I didn’t deserve to be hurt for, and I came back stronger, confident, and wiser. This is the beauty of who I am today, I am individual, authentic in every way, and I am me. I spent years finding myself again, and that can’t ever be taken away from me. I can’t be brought down anymore.
I don’t style my home, do makeup, change my hair, clothes, behavior or personality today to suit anybody but me.
People grow over time. Trauma never goes away ; but once you learn self-love, you discover the beauty in you, and you come to fully accept yourself no matter what anybody says.
Here is me today:
- I speak my mind, even if nobody likes it
- I stand my ground, even if nobody cares
- Don’t like my space wallpaper? I do, so I’ll keep it anyway
- I still sing, dance, read and write because I love it: I’m breaking into a…
