thoughts, poems and teenage shit

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Everyone wants something so raw and real; yet everyone is afraid of the initial interaction to get us there.

 Everyone wants love but doesn't take the steps it takes to get there. 

We live in a world where we have a question and with a few taps of a finger we can have our answer. 

We want things fast and anything other than that is a hinderance. 

Everyone fears the potential of something bigger and better for themselves. 

We rather limit ourselves because there's safety in the knowledge of limits. 

But, what if we all started acknowledging ourselves as individuals, and stop living in a world guided by social desirability? 

What if we all started acknowledging the people we surround ourselves with daily, as people on their own journey with their own struggles?

 I think we'd fear less what people think of us

. Why do we let people in that shouldn't be there and shut out the ones that should be?

 Why do we let ourselves be driven by fear?

 Why can't we Fear less about what they have to say so that we'd fear our own insecurities much less. 

YOU are in NO obligation to be who you were last week.

 Hell, you're in no obligation to be who you were yesterday, let alone a couple hours ago. 

No one else's feelings are more important than your own. 

YOU are important. 

Your worth is worth just as much as the person you gave your entire heart to.

 You can't sell yourself short just because things didn't go your way once or twice, hell, even if things didn't go your way the third, or the fourth, or the fifth time... You can't give up on yourself. 

Don't give up on others either. 

Take care of yourself. 

You're special. 

You might compare yourself to someone, but someone is comparing themselves to you too. 

Literally, every single person that comes your way is dealing with something.

 Surround yourself with people who make you want to be a better version of you. People who inspire you to inspire others.

 Surround yourself with those who encourage you to be different.

 Find the one who brings out the sides of you that you were scared to admit you possessed. 

Let go of the ones who don't help you grow and grasp onto the ones who remind you you don't need to fit into a mold. 

Don't be afraid to say no, and don't feel eager by saying yes.

 You don't owe anything to anyone. 

The only person you owe a single thing to is yourself. 

You've come a long way from where you started and in case anyone hasn't reminded you of that, I am. 

You've made it this far and with out question you deserve to keep going. you deserve every bit of happiness, so give it to yourself. 

Choose it for yourself. 

Choose to be happy and don't let anyone tell you that you can't. 

But if someone happens to come along and encourages you to love yourself.

 If you find someone who has so much love for themselves and has enough to give you? Don't let fear let you drive them away. 

Life is about the risk, and you learn something from everyone you meet.

 But the person who isn't afraid of the world and the pain it includes, is someone worth taking the risk for.

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