As I was growing up I went through a lot of phases, as I'm sure most children do. I was an emo for a long time followed by the teenie-bopper phase where I was obsessed with Justin Bieber and One Direction. Then I went through a hippie phase and now I feel more mainstream, but I hold onto the roots from the other phases I went through. I feel like I wasn't the only one who went through something like this, which is why I'm writing this to the multifaceted girls.
This is to the girls who grew up trying to fit into these boxes of personalities that made them feel limited. The girls who hid away pieces of themselves to try and fit in with these roles they thought were cool. The girls who look punk rock on the outside, but are secretly listening to One Direction through their headphones. The girls who are meditating to screamo music. To every girl out there who feels she is being shoved into a box: it's okay. It's okay for you to have a hand dipped in all of these boxes.
At the end of the day, you don't need to fit into one box. Your soul is so much wider and greater than a singular box. Your outer self is only an expression of how you're feeling, and there is never any reason for you to have to be the same, generic version of yourself every day of your life. Change, growth, and exploration is a wonderful thing, and a necessity so your soul doesn't feel limited to one personality box.
So next time you want to do something, but feel like it doesn't hold up to your reputation, go for it anyway. Your friends won't laugh at you, and if they do, then you don't need them in your life. You have so many sides to you and things that you like, so express that. Stop holding in the things you love because you think it's not acceptable to those around you, or your reputation. So what if people don't like it? You are the only thing that matters in your world, so please yourself and show the world all the facets of you!