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As long as you can feel good about the things you do, it does not matter how anybody else sees you.

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It’s a waste of your life to try to be like someone else that your haters favor more than you because you’re allowing them to control who you become.

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No matter the outer shell, we’re all human on the inside with feelings and egos and sensitivities.

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Maybe she wasn’t just calling me out to be mean, maybe she was genuinely worried, maybe she actually had a valid perspective.

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So just remember: people speak from where they are at, what they are learning, what they are capable of comprehending.

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I guess to some people I just come off as being aloof. Some may even describe me as intellectually immature. Others may simply feel that I am just shy and prudent.

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How little we look at what is inside.

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But my country is America, isn’t it? I was born here.

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I want to move, I want to change, I want to talk, but nobody speaks my language, the language of the lonely, of the lost, of the hopeless

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We feel compelled to hide because we have yet to find someone who validates us as we are. But this only does harm to your mind and body. And what better person to support you than the one who knows you best; you.