Transparent

“I am an ordinary girl on a stage being watched by the entire world, so what do I say? Do I talk about our trials and how we will rise like phoenixes, or do I preach like a man on an alter about how far we have fallen? Do I have enough words to say what I need to say or even enough time, I honestly don’t know. But what I do know is that things are kind of hard right now, and frankly, it sometimes feels like I can’t breathe under the fear that my actions will cause conflict.

This isn’t a personal problem by any means. I bet every single one of you has felt this way. Each one of you, I bet, has felt the pressure to hide parts of yourself away and be something else to survive, I know I have. The pressure to conform breaks even the toughest of souls. We want to make people proud, prove ourselves to others, and fit in, but all at the expense of ourselves. We all say we don’t, but we do, and that’s ok. You know, I just figured out my message to the world, we cannot be happy without being ourselves as a whole, and the reason we try to conform to other’s opinions is that we do not find happiness in ourselves; then comes the root of why we feel the need to conform. The idea of conformity comes from those who are so afraid of being themselves that they make others feel afraid. Just remember, those broken souls were broken by others who were broken themselves.

If I could give you all anything, I would give you permission to be happy and the knowledge that you were born perfectly imperfect, just like everyone else. We all are imperfect, so why do we try to be anything else? To try to prove something others, or try to prove something to ourselves?”