The Real Us

Hello.

Hello.

I'm Ani.

That's not my real name, by the way. I'm on this account anonymously.

Do you ever feel like it's impossible to be yourself in the real world?

I do.

I feel like, if I try to be myself, no one will be willing to accept me.

I'll be even more alone than ever.

This book, I've decided, is going to be a book so you can know me-the real me, even if you don't all know who I am. Not the girl who's always cheerful. Not the girl who holds friendships together. Not the girl whose friends only see her as beautiful and talented. Smart and funny. I wish that I really was as great as my friends insist I am. But I'm not.

I want you to know who I am behind closed doors. What I really think and feel when I'm alone with my thoughts. I'm not beautiful, or smart, or funny, or talented, really. I'm just...me.

I'm pretty sure that no one is actually going to care about this book. But, to be perfectly honest, I don't really care how many people read this. I just need somewhere where I can be 100% me. The one place where I don't have to pretend to be someone I'm not. Where I don't have to pretend to be okay. I'm not going to tell anyone who I am. I won't tell my friends that this is my account-Although, let's be honest, they know me so well, they'll probably figure it out. Maybe this will help me be more comfortable with myself in real life, and not just online, where no one knows who I really am. Let's face it, guys: I'm just another girl putting her story onto the internet. There are already millions of girls who have done this. But I've decided that I'm going to be one of those girls, too. You can say what you'd like to in this book. I'll be using it to vent all of my sadness and frustrations. You can do that too, if you'd like to.

I don't know most of you. But this thing called Life? It's tough. I think most of us need all the help we can get, if we're going to make it.

So, here I am.

And there you are.

Do you think that maybe, just maybe, we can all work to make the world a more accepting place?

If we try together?

I know, this is just an account on Wattpad. I know, probably no one will read this.

But even if no one reads this...At least I'll actually be saying something about the unfairness that's going on in life.

Which is more than most people are doing.