Listen To Me

6:03PM

We all want to fit in. We want to fit the expectations society sets out for us. We want to make our parents proud. They taught us how to fit in so it is our job to do it right. We were raised and nurtured.

We're another copy of someone else.

We are a better version of the last.

We were made to fit someone else's dreams. Someone else's expectations. Someone else's life. Someone else's morals. Someone else's shoes. Someone's else face.

This isn't ours.

Because our mother taught us girls that a lady must learn how to be a lady by always being beneath her man. By never rising to the occasion. By always being something less and never somethings more. We were raised to live on repeat. To live for someone else's benefit and never ours.

Because our father taught us that power is everything. That we must always be at the top never at the bottom. By always winning. By always doing whatever means necessary to gain the feat. Never below but always up there were no one else can be. That's when greed begins to eat us.

Because society told us that loving someone of the same gender isn't right. It's something that should never be done. It's considered disgusting and not natural. They tell us it's not right. That it's a sin. Society tells us all these things just so we could fit in. They tell us we need to be slim to look beautiful. Because being fat looks unhealthy and gross. They tell us we need to be like the others and be like them but never like us.

We were raised hearing all these different things that we become pressured to fit in the picture. To look like a model with a fit slim body. To love the opposite gender. To be at the top.

To be a man you must be manly. To be a woman you must be a lady. To be a person of society you must be normal.

But we're supposed to be human. Not normal. Not a lady. Not a man. But a human.

That's all we are after all. A human. Yet we were always taught to be something. Something we're not. We learn about history but some people never learn from their mistakes that we continue to repeat the wrong and never learn the right. They teach us all these useless things that they never taught us how to be human.

So let me tell you because it's not too late to be who you are. It's okay to love the same gender or both or maybe you don't love at all. That's okay. Because either way love is a beautiful thing. It's okay to be anything you want to be. It's okay to not always be at the top because sometimes you need to taste defeat to crave victory.

It's okay.

It's okay to be human.