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Dear Person Reading This, It's OK To Not Be Perfect

Unless you are being YOU.

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Dear Person Reading This, It's OK To Not Be Perfect
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I am that girl who takes two pulls to realize it's a push door, still struggles with the spelling for togather...wait it's together right? A girl who contemplates what salad goes on my sub and still confuses Hugh Jackman for Justin Timberlake sometimes!

A girl who somehow always ends up crossing the road when a car comes by and well; I am the personification of the classic generalization that women have bad road sense.

But well, that doesn't stop me from having a direction to my life. Or from discovering new things or to say rediscovering myself with every new turn.

I am no role model or great achiever to write inspiration speeches for masses to look upon. But from the twenty-something that I have managed to survive, one thing I have learned from sure- and that is that 'nothing is final'; not a bad interview, not a failed subject or not even a broken relationship. And nothing is definitely worth trading our self-esteem for.

Well, you might be someone who takes the time to approach new people(or so I would like to believe and not be the only one here! ). But it's okay. Just like a brand new pen that loses its roughness only after quite some scribbling, you'll be just fine! And as much as we are anxious about someone judging us, we must remember they are equally anxious!

So next time you feel like you are not the most perfect person in the room-maybe you are right! But never forget the perfect and happy are two very different things! It takes happy to be perfect but the other way round is not necessary. So go ahead and don't hesitate to tell the world your story this time or not if that's what makes you happier.

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