Who are YOU?

   Hey, everyone. I want to make this one viral. Read on and decide yourself if you want to pass it on.

   Today, I got really passionately agitated for some reason. Not angry at someone else. Just agitated because of the brokenness the world puts in people.
   Look at that picture I put at the beginning. This world tears people down, looking to make others fit in the norm. Like soldiers are torn down by drill sergeants, so too are others torn down by bullies who believe they are making others fit in the standards this world has put down.
   Now, these bullies aren't the kind most people think of. They're not just the popular girls, talking behind others backs, tearing down others with words, and setting the trends others simply must follow. They're not just the jocks who beat up weaklings or set standards high for what a boy should be like.
   No. I count also on the society, the pressure of it, the media produced, everything that says you have to change who you are in order to fit in.

   Why do we have to change our appearance, our outlook on life, our personalities, in order to fit in with this "perfect" society?
   How many people are truly happy being popular, following social norms? Be honest, how many are?
   Who is happy starving themselves? They've been deluded to think no matter what they do to think that they're fat, even if they're a selection.
   Who is happy dressing like the people in the magazines or in the clothing that everyone must wear to fit in? Are they not preyed upon? Told they are unspeakable and disgusting things that in their hearts they are not.
   Who's ever happy becoming what others want them to be? Not the person that they really are?

   Sometimes it's an outsider. Sometimes it's a friend. It can even be someone in your family. It doesn't matter where it comes from. If you're not being pulled to your true potential, leave. If you can't now, do so when you can. It's harder to do when it's family. But lessening the contact, even if it can't completely disappear, may make the load lessen.
   Be who you are. Dare to Be. Be who YOU are. Find out for yourself who that is. Than BE it.
When you are happy, truly happy, nothing can stop you.
   Because you'll have no borders. You can die, you can feel pain, but that should not stop you from living. Not when you have something you live for. Who will that be?

   That is up to you.

-Kayla