You are beautiful just the way you are. Do not conform to what society thinks you should be. "... be yourself - not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be." Henry David Thoreau. EVERYONE has some sort of pain, so don't let the masks fool you. Everyday you have to be thankful for everything you have and it doesn't have to be materialistic things. I'm not going to pretend to know the pain of your exact situation. I don't have physical limitations or issues at home and a poor family life. I don't get ridiculed daily about being "fat", "ugly", "stupid" and all the other verbal abuse dished out by fools. But I do know the darkness of your pain. I know how to fake the smiles and laughter during the day only to go home and look in the mirror and question whether what others say about me is true. I do know about giving up, laying down and saying "I'm done". I know the horrors of feeling alone except for the negative voices inside my head. So to you I say, "you are beautiful just the way you are". God made each one of us and God is perfect; there are no mistakes from Him, so you are not a mistake. You have to keep pushing, knock down the walls that are closing around you. Now you can pretend they aren't there, but I know they are. The only way to knock them down is by taking it one step at a time. Sure you can give yourself false hope and falling into peer pressure and buying into what the fools are selling you. Go ahead and drink bottle after bottle, but I guarantee when you wake up your pain will still be there. The only way to be happy is to start loving yourself. Only then will the walls start crumbling down. Never let your shadows take away your light. Don't let your situation define who you are. Let your heart define who you are. It has taken me a long time to realize that, but once I decided to accept me and love myself I found out that those walls aren't as thick as they appear. Always remember that success in life is never guaranteed nor is it ever denied. It is simply earned. Giving up absolutely cannot be an option. There will be failures along your path but there is not a limit on the number of times you are allowed to stand back up. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time," Thomas Edison. Love yourself for you are worthy of it. "If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create", John Lennon.
Stand up, take one step after another no matter how small. Chip away at the walls around you, and earn the success of that which you dream of.
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you"
- Thomas Jefferson
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