It's Day 2 of the 30 Writing Challenge and today is - "Write something that someone told you about yourself that you never forgot"
"Your personality is like a girl"
I would never forget this. It's not because it's insulting or not, it was something people frequently told me about. It was something people notice a lot about me and they pointed immediately. It didn't bother me because I know how my personality is like.
My personality is a lot to the softer side. I don't like sports, I'm more of an art person and I'm not usually loud. All the stereotypes you have about a guy being a guy...I don't have them. The reason I'm more soft is that I never think that being all macho and masculine was ever necessary in my life. You should just live your life the way you want. I also had a strong dislike towards sports that can potentially get me dirty so I didn't participate much in anything.
In my early high school days, I initially tried to hide this side of me. I didn't want people to know that I was soft and not masculine that kind of thing. It was really hard because I was hiding my true self but my friends could still see through the whole act and all.
My friends started asking me like "Why can't you be more manly?", "Why is your personality like a girl?", and the prized comment is "Are you sure you're supposed to be in an all boy's school? All girls school is just across the street," Those were extreme comments I have never gotten during my primary school days but of course, a lot of things change during high school. I had even considered transferring to a Co-ed school once because of all of those comments.
I came to the realization that hiding your true self is not the best decision. You should just follow your heart and be who you are. In the early stages of that, it can be really hard because you're learning to accept hate comments and criticism from people. If it goes overboard, it can greatly affect one's emotions. What I did was basically live my life normally without letting the comments of others affect me.
When you show people that whatever your personality you have can make you a better person, they actually gradually come to accept it. Show people that you are an amazing person just the way you are. When people have come to accept you for who you are, you'll absolutely amazing and free.
Even to this day, I still get comments about my personality but it no longer affects me, and people sometimes see it as a unique personality instead of an out of place type of personality.
