peace of mind

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Your entire life up until you are eighteen or nineteen years old is filled with nothing but demands and constant hypocritic criticism. So many people feeling the need to (for whatever reason) tell you exactly how you should live your life, who you need to be. We spend so much of our lives hearing people tell us how we should and shouldn't dress or act. 

     Others seem to want to create this image of us in their minds. So to those people, they have those expectations of the person they have created in their own minds. The standards and expectations that everyone has for us are far too high sometimes. Everyone wants you to be perfect, no mistakes are allowed to be made. Heaven forbid you do make a mistake in life, people will disown you or talk down on you for years over one small thing that you may have done.

     But, you see, here's the thing... none of us are ever going to be perfect. Not even those who tend to criticize us the most. The number of people that will strive for perfection until the day they take their last breath is unreal. Such a huge number of people want so badly to be perfect in society's eyes but honestly, that's just unrealistic.

We all want the same thing at the end of the day; to be accepted for who we are. Nobody wants to wake up on a daily basis for eighteen or more years of their lives and have to listen to criticism about how they choose to live. 

     In this generation's society, everyone should be able to do what makes them happy and to be whoever the hell they want to be without fear of being judged. Some of us have unaccepting parents when it comes to many things. Our parents will try so hard to interfere with our love lives and tell us who we can and can't date or be with. They will fill our heads with their outlooks on life and what they believe our life should be like, the kind of guy or girl we should be with, etc...

     I think when it comes down to it, at the end of the day, you really only have yourself and you only have this one life to live. So LIVE IT and live it to the fullest. Be whoever or whatever you may wish to be. It's your life, take complete control of that and use it to the best of your advantage to do what your heart desires in life.