From the time we are little tikes to the moment we are moving into our own apartment, we are always told who we should be and what we should do with our lives. Parents coach their children into being another version of them or to not make the same choices they did when they were younger. Society is constantly shaping what is acceptable to say, do, wear and who it is acceptable to be. But why should we listen to what everyone else is saying? Why don't we be who we want to be regardless of what others say?
When you start to be who you want to be, your whole outlook on life will change. You will fall more in love with yourself than you ever knew was possible. Suddenly you will love your body, you'll love your personality and you will love who you see in the mirror. At first spreading your wings and flying away from your comfort zone of a cocoon will be nerve racking, but once you take your first flight, you will feel rejuvenated and never want to go back.
There are people in this world who have always been who they wanted to be and often times we would look at them and judge them. We would judge them for their actions and for the clothes they wear. We never took time to truly get to know who they were. I envy those people now. They knew who they wanted to be and embraced that. There was never any hiding behind a mask of who they should be or what they should be doing. The idea that they would never be accepted was never a thought in their mind. They embraced who they were and ran wild with it.
If only we were all like this. If only we all wanted to feel comfortable in our own skin. At some point in life, people start to drill you with the questions of what you want for your future, but how are you supposed to know if you don't even know who you are?
It is time to start letting people be who they want to be, regardless of our judgments. We need to love one and other. We need to show each other kindness. We need to support each other and let them know that we will accept each other for who they truly are. We need to be comfortable in our own skin. We need to always be who we want to be and not who others say we should be.
