In this past year I have learned that not everyone is going to like you, but then again not everybody matters. For the people who love having your name in their mouth, let them continue to talk about you.

I was once the young lady who really cared what everyone had to say about me. There are plenty of words that others has said that has gotten to me, but if they were to say the same thing about me now I would shrug my shoulders and say the typical line of “oh well.”

I am making myself happy, not anyone else. I like to do things that people say that I could never do. Being the girl who was always afraid to step out of her comfort zone; I have learned more about me in this past year than I ever have.

I really do not care what your opinion is when I talk about the presidential campaign, what I love to do, or anything else that I talk about. I am not afraid of calling you out on something that I feel like you are wrong about. I have the freedom of speech, so I will express my opinion. Living with people for a year that I did not care of what they had to say made me ignore everything that one has to say. Anyone could come to me and start talking to me and I could easily ignore them. I refuse for others to feel as if they could use me or continue to walk all over me.

This past year I have erased out of most of the negative people that used to be in my life. I do not care of what you think about me, because it has made me a better person on finally loving myself. You can keep on making statuses about me, subtweeting me, and keeping my name in your phone conversations or group messages, etc., but the thing is I finally do not care of what you think about me.

Finding myself has led to becoming really in love with rap music, learning how to do different things like taking adventures in the middle of the night with no plan or destination, and being alone and feeling comfortable with myself. If you do not like that about me then you can go ahead and exit my life. Negativity is not what I need. Also, if you feel as if I cannot do something because I do not have the strength or passion to do it, I will most likely do it anyways to prove you wrong.

Do not tell me about my future…once again, it is MY future.

Chances are if you are the person that talks constantly about me or brings me down then I most likely do not like you.

I may fall a couple of times, but I will not stay there. I do not live in the deep down sorrow of trying to ask for help. Let me do things on my own. I can fall and learn how to get up by myself because at the end of the day I am the only person who actually has my back.