Ah, the ultimate quest of every modern high school student. Similar questions include "Who am I?" "Why can't people accept me for who I am?" "Why can't someone normal ask me to homecoming? Is that too much to ask?" Well, everybody wants what they can't have. The pattern is somewhat evident. A person longs to be "cool" and "popular," they attempt to be those qualities, and then they either fail or succeed. Those who fail soon give up and realize they have to accept themselves for who they really are. Good for them! Those who succeed in being accepted by the cool crowd are often considered the lucky ones. But are they really? How do we know that their lives aren't really a lie? How would we know how much they have to fake just to feel accepted and worshipped? They are not really, as you would say, comfortable in their own skin. They are living in someone else's. They are living in someone else's seemingly perfect shadow. They're fake people, so don't even start with me on all the "popularity is the key to life" crap. The truth of the matter is, some people really aren't who they say they are, and they might not even know it. Eventually, everybody finds their true self at some point in their lives, and that's when they can start to live up to their own potential. You can't be all you're meant to be when you can't even accept yourself the way you are. Before you start obsessing over what other people think of you, know how you think about yourself. So we should all just be ourselves. Dance like nobody's watching, and live like there's no tomorrow.
XOXO, Bianca (a girl that's awesome just the way she is :)
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