The best thing you can be is yourself. You know the experiences you have been through, the loves you have had and lost, the family and friends that surround you and guide you through this thing called life.

There is no point in running to catch up with everyone else. Keeping up with the Jones’ is not the be all and end all. Just because other people have certain thing or life experiences, why does that mean you have to have the same ones? They are not you and you are most definitely not them. Envy is a dangerous thing, so don’t give in to peer pressure; it will being you nothing but grief.

So just be you. Like what you want to like, even if it is not ‘on trend’. Read what you want to read, even if others think reading is boring or a waste of time. Wear what you want to wear; after all, all fashion starts out as not being trendy, so what’s to say what you wear will not be a la mode at some point soon?

By you. That’s all you can possibly be, and it is amazing.

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