be yourself;

In my sixteen years, I can’t really say I’ve lived that much or that I have achieved a great level of experience. But I’ve seen and I’ve felt the strong influence society has on its members, people. Specially, on the most vulnerable species, we could call it like that.

I’d like to quote a part of a lyric I like. “In a hateful world, people would rather die than be who they are”

It’s really sad because it’s true. We can see, we can perceive that natural is overrated; plastic and fake runs and rules everything right now.

How many of us, has not been once not happy with our own body. We see people getting surgeries for almost everything. Most of them, a great majority only do it because of beauty. I remember something my mom told me once, people who get a surgery won’t just stay there, if they can not accept one simple apparent flaw, they will find when they aren’t, more and more flaws. They will never be happy with how they look.

Another quote I would like tor refer to is: Love yourself first so no has to. When you take a psychological test there’s always this question that says “Describe yourself” We are afraid of this, and we stare at the blank page and we think that a physics or a math test would be easier to answer than that question.

That just shows how much we know about ourselves. We can’t say I’m gonna be myself, or be yourself if we don’t even know who we are.

We can’t get to love ourselves if we don’t start by knowing ourselves. We are our first own best friend. We should analyze our feelings, the things that makes us happy, sad, angry. We should look for things that could make us improve as a person, as a human, and throw away people, things that makes us miserable, unhappy. We should be pointing what’s positive about us, instead of criticizing ourselves all the time. It’s a destructive way to treat yourself.

In order to accept ourselves is releasing other’s opinions away. Most of the things we have come to believe of us, have no real fundament.

Now, for being the best ourselves we can be there’s an example. A great example from nature, its this little flower, the lotus flower.

It’s a really special flower to me, for it’s meaning. The lotus flower is known and admired in some religions and cultures. And the basic meaning of it it’s purity.

The process of how it’s born it’s what makes this flower so special. You see, this flower grows in muddy, dirty water. She emerges from it. That's what it gave it the meaning. She rises and blooms above the dirt, becoming an enlightening flower.

We are those little flowers, we are so beautiful and we can just shine on the dirt. We have to be different, act like ourselves, be the difference for once, show the world that no matter the problems, their bad influence we can be like that little flower that provides beauty to its surroundings. We can be the best of ourselves when we share the love we have achieves to feel for each one of us, being nice with people, being helpful. Treating people just like we want them to treat us. We have to remember that what goes around comes back around, we get what we give.

If we could share all our positive thinking about life, if we could think about how we make feel people, the world could change, for real.