Writer's Block: Redo

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This sounds like a bit of a paradox, but I wouldn't be so afraid to be different, and I wouldn't be so afraid to be normal. When I was at high school, I would try to hide parts of me that were different, like my sexuality, what music I listened to, whatever little things the idiots I went to school with didn't like to see in people. So I was acting like someone I wasn't. And then some rebellious thing kicked in, and I went to another extreme - trying to be too different; again, someone who wasn't me. I didn't break the law or anything, but I was just too determined to be different, just for the sake of being different. Anything that was too "normal" I suppressed. WTF?!  And now I'm perfectly happy with being myself :) 

I should also mention, because it is kinda related, how I really shouldn't have bothered with people who didn't give a shit about me or how I felt, or what I liked and disliked or anything. There are too many great people in the world to waste my time worrying about the most popular girls not liking me. If they don't like me, it's their loss, really.

Comments

[mondengel.livejournal.com]

Some people definitely get through their teenage years just being themselves, and it all works out, but yeah, the majority of us go through the turmoil of being unsure whether to just be yourself and simply cope with whatever consequences it brings.

Thanks :) It's only really since I left school that I've been confident enough; well, I still have a couple of self-esteem issues I need to work out, and my self-confidence could be better, but I'm certainly working forward rather than backwards, so it's all good. :P