We live in a world where being too nice is possible; a land where wearing your heart on your sleeve demonstrates vulnerability. To many, there’s this mold. You either fit into it or your forced to live in its shadows. And it is something everyone has grown accustomed to.

They won’t say they have but it’s an underlying fact. It’s a solid equation derived from several factors. From social media to in the classroom to over the weekend, you’re left to fight to fit the mold.

I don’t understand how people assume not fitting in the mold is bad. It’s quite the opposite actually. We’re not play-doh. We can’t be constructed using the same cookie cutter we stole from mom’s kitchen drawer at a young age. That’s not how this works. We all learn concepts at different times. We grow at different rates both mentally and physically. Some of us weren’t meant to be the life of the party or the kid who gets straight A’s.

Everything I write on here has a meaning behind it. This one, is just like the rest. I hope that with each word I type, you’ll maybe pick up a few of them, store them in your head and think about them time and time again. Maybe I will inspire you. Or maybe I’ll do something bigger. Maybe I’ll remind you of who you are.

You are powerful beyond measure. I write because I want others to know what I go through. I want them to be motivated in a sense but I write for other reasons too. I write because I need to remind myself as well. I need to relay the messages back and forth in my head and on the paper.

If I can get one person to understand what I am about to say, I call it a job well done.

Wearing your heart on your sleeve is not a bad thing. Being too nice is not a negative aspect about you.

I call it remarkable. There are people out there who make other people happy to be alive; who wake up every morning without realizing how much their big ounces of caring for others means to those people. You are one of them.

There’s a sparkle in your eyes that never dulls. A heart in that body of yours that is bigger than most. It takes a strong person to be too nice. Despite what society throws at you, you muster up a smile on your face and make the most of it. You take it one day at a time and just do you.

I have learned a lot of things through out my life but what I’ve truly took to heart to was this: You will meet a lot of people in your life who will not treat you as nice as you treat them. Love them anyway.

It is in the depths of caring more than everyone else that you find something most don’t. Strength in knowing that you don’t care for others expecting it in return. Strength in realizing you don’t smile at that stranger on the street expecting a smile back. You do it because that is who you are.

Who you are on this Earth is more than another human being. And being a nice person is something that truly counts.

Don’t change who you are because the world can’t understand the idea of being too nice. This is your life. Wear your heart on your sleeve and wear it proud.

I applaud you.