a haiku of self-affirmation
seeing your weirdness as a gift
your anomalies
bring out nothing but the best
in you and me
A tale as old as time… BE YOURSELF. It might give some of y’all the “ick,” but dammit, it’s true.
We talked about this at length this past week over on sunday steadies this week, but I felt it necessary to reiterate it again.
This life is a weird science experiment, full of spray-tanned presidents, screen-addicted zombies, and some giant ball of fire in the sky that makes the whole thing work properly.
None of it makes sense, so why do we feel the need to conform?
What is conformity?
Who decides what’s cool?
Here’s my advice to you—
Eat the hot dog like a sandwich, not a taco if you feel like it.
Wear two shades of the same color, even if they clash.
Tell people about that new thing you love, even if you’re scared they won’t care.
Stare down that fear that you know is completely irrational, but still scares you to death, say “bitch, please, you’re just (fill in the blank by clearly calling it whatever it is)” and then do an invisible mic drop as you walk away from it.
Life is too freaking short for you to sell yourself short on a full life. And all that weird stuff that you secretly hate about yourself are the very things that people wish they had more of within themselves.
And oddly enough, when you express those weird oddities that make you you, it frees everyone else up to do the same; relieving that self-imposed shit-packed pressure we’ve all been carrying in ourselves like some bad case of character constipation.
In that case, consider this your motivational Miralax for the week.
share this with someone you love 👇👇👇