ACCEPTING YOU

ADERONKE ADETONA

WRITER||POET||SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR||VOLUNTEER||CAMPUS AMBASSADOR

10 articles

January 11, 2019

Everyone as a child has been taught to try and be like the other kids, your parents compare you with your mates every day. You wonder what the hell is wrong and why you couldn't do things right. You grew up with that notion that you always have to be some certain way, you always have to fit in.
    All your friends wanna be Doctors, lawyers, and the likes, you never had dreamed of being any of that.

Your dream was to be a fashion designer with a big shop but because society only recognizes people with the titles, you went to university to study what you didn't like. Now you are grown. You are working, You earn six figures a month but you didn't find self-fulfillment in what you do,  you remembered you had a dream of becoming a fashion designer when you were a kid but you didn't pursue it. You imagined how your life would have been if you had chased your dreams...Perhaps  you would have been happy, Find fulfillment maybe
  You loathe yourself daily
   You have become more withdrawn
   Everybody noticed; you said it's nothing
    You crawl to bed before 12 pm wake up before anybody


     You couldn't find your self

     You lost it a long time ago
 This happens daily in our life whenever we try to fit into the world's standards
You think that Being fair is the new thing, you bleached all the Melanin off your skin.
They said you are Overweight, you starve yourself every day. You look in the mirror and thought within yourself I still haven't lost 50 pounds yet... People are going to make a jest of me
You saw that skinny looking lady, you said she looked malnourished
Who said looking a certain way is a ticket to heaven?
  Until you learn to stop comparing yourself to anybody, stop trying to fit in, stop taking other people's validation as a measure of your self-worth.
 You will never be you 
  You will not find happiness
Happiness is from within, it starts by accepting you as you.

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ADERONKE ADETONA

WRITER||POET||SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR||VOLUNTEER||CAMPUS AMBASSADOR

10 articles

January 11, 2019


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