honestly
WHAT MAKES SOMEONE
think that their
UNNECESSARY CRITICISMS
on YOU is going to make THEM feel better?
what makes someone
want to make you feel bad about being joyful?
MAYBE, JUST MAYBE
it's because you are content with your life.
&& that you don't need
their A P P R O V A L
to be happy + smile.
m a y b e IT'S b e c a u s e
YOU'RE NOT EMBARRASSED ABOUT
w h o · y o u · a r e
B E C A U S E who Y O U are is R E A L.
AND WHO YOU ARE IS NOT
{ d e f i n e d }
by what O T H E R S think of you
but most of all?
who you are doesn't need
to make the PEOPLE around YOU feel
BADLY ABOUT THEMSELVES
so you can feel better about yourself.
BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT
you are the best
AT BEING YOU && THAT'S
all there is to it!
HONESTLY.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I know, this is so stinking long! GAH! I'm incredibly sorry. But I had to do it, and I honestly {ha..ha...no pun intended} love it.
I have been thinking a lot lately on why others need to be rude, mean, hurtful, etc, to other people to be happy. I mean, we've all heard it before, right? "don't let it get to you, that's what they want" or "they're just really, really insecure with themselves." Right? We have all been told {or told someone} that.
Well. It might be the truth. But it doesn't make the words or thing people say and do less hurtful, now does it?
When someone hurts you, your general response is one of two things. To say something or do something hurtful in return, or to let it roll off your back, as my momma says, and move on with life.
If you've been following this blog for even just a few weeks, you know this: I am a verrrrrrrrry enthusiastic person. I am confident. I don't really care if someone thinks I'm weird for being 16 and loving vintage pyrex. I don't really care if someone thinks I smile too much. I don't care if I'm classified as "that homeschooled girl", because the reality of it is that I am all those things.
Yes, I probably smile more than the average person. I have been told I carry myself with confidence. I walk with confidence, and I don't let stuff offend me easily. My laugh probably gets annoying, oh well. I sew my own clothes and am collecting vintage pyrex for my home one day, even though I'm only 16. And I am homeschooled, and I don't rebel against it....I actually love it! Shocking, I know.
I will admit, I can be cynical. I can be condescending. But it's never on purpose, and it's never to try and make someone feel less about themselves.
Believe it or not, the fact that I'm confident and "bubbly" as most people put it, makes a lot of people insecure and uncomfortable around me.
My mom says it's cause I'm "So darn cute and don't do anything to make it happen", but she's my mom, and she's obligated to say stuff like that..haha.
I promise this isn't me being insecure or anything...trust me. This is just me throwing it out there and pondering the subject...
I've never really felt bad about who I am...people have tried to make me feel bad about it for a while, and that's come over in waves of a few days at a time four or five times a year, but that's it really.
I've been taught my entire life that I am God's daughter; His princess. And that He only made ONE of me.
One. Uno. 1.
So then why, on earth, for crying out loud, should I try and be like someone else?
He didn't put me here to be just like everyone else.
He didn't put me here to blend in.
Nope.
He put me here to do a job, a job that only I can do in a way that only I can do, a job which will utilize my personality and traits and gifts that He has given me!
That statement tends to offend people too. Weird, I know.
So what doesn't make sense, is why do people get all upset about me being "different", and confident, and bubbly, per-say, when that's what all of us are supposed to be?
I guess it's just because we're all human, we all have faults, and we're all in need of the grace of God to save us from ourselves.
Anyway, that's all. I hope I didn't rub anyone wrong with any of that, just being, well...
honest. :)
