I Came. I Saw. I Conquered.

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What does it mean to be myself?
Who am I?
To be myself in a world that is constantly trying to make me something else,
    is the greatest accomplishment I think I have made.  
Imperfection is my beauty without makeup.
Madness is my genius, without hiding it just to be popular.
I believe it's absolutely better to be absolutely ridiculous than to be absolutely boring.
I was born an original.
And I don’t plan on dying a copy.
Because I know deep down that...
Someone will always be prettier.
Someone will always be smarter.
Someone will always be younger.
However, they will never be me.
I walk the halls of my high school.
I see the teenagers taking their selfies.
I see them texting their love paragraphs.
I see them tweeting their feelings.
But how is that true? How is this true?
How can you trust someone who sits behind a wall, a wall of glass?
I have to live in this life with questions,
With fears,
With concerns.
But that’s what I came for in this life.
That’s how I see things in my life.
And this is how I will conquer it.
By being me.



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