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Not Knowing Yourself is Not Being Yourself

This is a little bit longer than usual. I know a lot of people can relate to this situation. I hope you like it :)

I have wanted to show my real self since a long time,

But everyone knows that I will never be able to express myself.

I have to follow what I am told to.

I have to do what everyone expects me to do,

Because if I don't than I will be seen as a bad person.

I always have to accomplish what I am expected to.

If I do something I'm not supposed to

Then they will think I am hanging with the wrong people.

When in reality I'm just starting to get tired.

I'm tired of always having to worry what others think of me.

I'll rather be free than do the right things,

Because if doing the right thing is to do what everyone expects me to do,

Than I will rather be a bad person and do as I want to do.

I will do what I think is right and not what others wish me to do.

Being yourself is not bad.

Showing who you are should be understood.

So what if I want to do things no one expected me to do.

Who cares if I am not the person I appear to be.

There are a lot of things that I will do if no one judged me.

If my parents gave me permission to do as I pleased,

I will the have looked different.

People will not know me by how they know me now.

The thing is that not even I know who I am.