Pride! We've heard it many times, in several different contexts. But what exactly does it mean?
The dictionary states many different meanings for the word pride, but the one that stands out the most is: A reasonable or justifiable self-respect.
I define it as: The realization that you can not change who you are. That you can only be yourself. You can't please everyone, so knowing that, in the end the only person you should be working to please is YOURSELF.
I see & hear of so many people changing who they are in there heart. Pretending to be like this, when they are in their heart like that. So many people wear a mask to please everyone around them. They wear this mask so long, that when they look in the mirror, they can no longer recognize what/who they're looking at.
Why go through so much to pretend to be someone who you really aren't? Why make yourself miserable, just to please everyone around you, when you know it's not possible. There is always going to be a grievance.
People kill themselves everyday because they can't bring them selves to accept who they truly are; gay, transgender, bi, lesbian, having disease, being poor...they can't accept what mother nature has dealt them, so they end it. It's not fair...people, TEENS, dying because everyone around them ridicules who they really are & they can't bring themselves to put that mask on & be someone they are NOT.
This blog is just to let people know: you are beautiful no matter what anyone tells you, if you're 100 pounds, or 1000 pounds! If you're Muslim, Hispanic, German, French; it does not matter...you are born to the lifestyle you are for a reason. To learn a lesson in this lifetime! Don't waste it-you are beautiful! If not physically, then you're beautiful in some other way. Don't waste time trying to be like everyone around you, because in the end it's only going to make you miserable. You can't please everyone. So, take that mask off, & be proud of who you are! Stand tall, hold your head up high & say: "I am who I am, & I won't change for you or anyone else!"
I'm proud, b& I will never pretend/say otherwise...but I do have my moments of anxiety/fear when it comes to the brutality that's been going around as of late.
I'm straight but well said Nichole.
I always say "I am who I am, And I will be what I will be so you should except me for who I am because I won't change anytime soon" to my parents.
I agree-Elton John is quotedas saying "I just wish my fellow queers would come out, it's nice out here you know?" People like him, Ellen DeGeneres...they are who they are-they wear no mask, that's why I have so much respect & support for them & other celebrities like them. I was 15 when I thought I was bi, considered myself bi. Then as I got older I was scared bc I thought I was slowly turning lesbian. I finally realised at 19 or 20, that I never 'slowly changed' it was me! It had always been me! I was just afraid to embrace it! It took me a while, not til I was 21, to remove that mask & say, "This is me, love me or hate me, I won't change"
By @Astra Moon
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