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| If you ever feel cornered to compromise, remember YOU. |
The world has taught us, that people matter, relationships matter, their opinion as well as their silence. We have been taught to live selflessly and to love others, to take compliments and in the world of social media to love the likes and the comments. God how we hate it when they don't like us or even when we don't fit in with the group.
But that suffocates the "You" that you are. It creates mini versions of society's kind of people. It creates undertones and soft treading. Eventually we are afraid to step on each others toes and we can't dish out good criticism and we as well can't help but stay on the offensive. We become judges of this world and we second guess everyone's actions towards us. And then we wonder why we have a generation of depressed, anxiety filled and panic stricken beings.
We are worked up by how people act or how they respond to us. But they are just being themselves, I am an advocate for real. Be you, be the jerk that you are or the princess that you are, be outspoken or gentle in speech, be all that you are maybe you will in the end attract your own tribe. The universe has a way of bringing us to what it is that we are looking for. And in those moments you will find liberty in owning you and in living without pretense.
The problem with neglecting who you really are is in the fact that no one really cares. No one cares that at the end of you being nice and stepped on and abused and being nice and holding back, you actually are miserable. You are dying and no one really cares that you are.
So stay miserable on the account of others. No way.
They will tell you, be selfless and think about others. The truth is no one is thinking about others in the long run, they are thinking about themselves. That is the irony of life and that by far makes living worthwhile if we can do it for ourselves. Until you meet someone, willing to really live for you.
When that time comes, you will not second guess the need to be selfless, kind and all in. You will see it in their lives, in their continuous struggle to stand with you. And you will try and you will reciprocate their concern for you.
In the mean while, Do you. Be you. Embrace the opportunity to flourish and to laugh, laugh hard(they will stare and judge) laugh anyway. Love hard( they will underscore your care) love anyway. Go to bed happy, you deserve a dry pillow. Call who you want to call, they will get used to hearing your voice in the end. Go where you want to go, try to challenge your status quo. Do you girl, do you big guy. Eat what you want to. We already have enough judges for the world, don't be one of them. Don't be grumpy, be comfortable in finding peace in the You that you are.
So I am here, typing and someone will read this and roll their eyes. Roll them if you want to. I am good. Some one once said, "I is a very selfish letter"
BE YOU. BE FREE. JUST BE
