1. Discover Who You Are and Be Proud of it.
There is nothing more important in life than to feel good in your own skin. Learning how to oppose the standards of society starts within yourself. You have to be able to know who you are and what you are comfortable with in order to be okay with stepping out and doing your own thing.
What's more, is that once you get to that point you will feel invincible. After you learn to fully accept who you are and know yourself you can take that feeling and truly be who you are.
2. Don’t Be Afraid to Try Something “Unordinary”
Things are only “unordinary” because society has stuck whatever the “unordinary” thing is as something against the norm. This is a stigma not a fact. So when you think about it, nothing is really unordinary without your consent.
Once you know who you are and what you like, you can take this to action. By this do what you want, when you want and how you want. Never forget that whatever you like is perfectly okay. If you want to wear an all green outfit with purple suede shoes you love then do it. Nothing else matters other than your own perception of things.
3. Do Not Worry About What Other People Think
In life people are going to have a lot to say about what you do, what you think and how you feel and although easier said than done it’s easier to tune them out. An opinion of someone unimportant should not define you and anyone who tries to bring you down is just a sad person and you should feel sorry for them anyways. The way I see it, how others react to your life and choices is none of your business. They are not you.
4. Do What Makes You Happy Without Question
We have all heard the saying “We come into this world alone, and we will die alone” as bleak as that quote is, it is without a doubt true. When we think about it, we live for ourselves since birth.
We didn’t play with our toys as toddlers for others, we didn’t watch our favorite cartoons for others, we didn’t take our first steps for others, we did all of those things for ourselves because we wanted to. So why is it that at the start of adolescence and on we seem to begin to excessively mold ourselves for others?
We are living literally for ourselves everything we do affects us. So it is only right and fair that we make proud choices with no regrets.
At the end of the day, be proud of yourself, do what you want, be who you want without conforming to basic standards. Negativity is only as real as you allow it to be. The only standards that matter are the ones you set for yourself and even those should be as light and pressure-free as possible.
