When society gets it wrong.

What do you do when you feel like you can’t go on?
When you feel like the entire world is crushing in on you?

You light a candle and breathe.
You breathe.
Your breath is enough to remind you that you are enough.

This world, or the society that seemingly runs it, can make one feel like a fucking failure. Like every move you make is the wrong one. But the truth is, they’ve got it all wrong. You are perfect just the way you are. You were not made for society, and society was never created for you.

So I stop trying to measure up to whatever the fuck society wants, and I fully embrace me… my dark eyes, my loud weird laugh, the way my brain works… all of it.

It is who I am and who I’m supposed to be.
If it doesn’t align with you, society too damn bad. You’re missing out on a good time.

I withdraw myself from the pressures of society. I go within, I find who I am, and I love her some more. I give her the undivided attention that she is due, and I love on her some more.

So no, I’m not going back to school to please you.
And no, I’m not going to fix the way I talk to make you feel comfortable.
And no, I won’t proclaim a god I don’t know just so you can feel better about appeasing the people you must appease.

I fully embrace what I love, the things that make me smile, sigh, and giggle: the incense, the pretty crystals, the nice-smelling candles, and the plants that talk back to me. I will surround myself with colorful tarot cards and read more books about my ancestors and, and, and…

Society, I’ve had enough of your “shoulds” and “should-nots.” Kiss my rear end, respectfully.

I allow myself to breathe into myself, to expand, and to grow wildly. exactly as life intended.