Just to be me

So many things are demanded from us for to fit into the society and to what is considered an acceptable norm. Who is it that defines this norm? Media? Economy? Mass-culture? General opinion?

I don't want to please anyone. I don't want to be something just because someone wants me to be that. Just because someone thinks that is the norm, just because that is the narrow shape into which each and every person is to be suppressed to make them acceptable in the both social and popular culture. I do not care whether or not I am popular, I do not care whether or not I am considered normal, I do not care whether or not I fit in to the fashion. What I care about is to be me, to be a person full of life and love and caring for others, for the life itself, for this world around us. Yes, even the world even though I often talk about it as an enemy. After all, this is the world we got as a gift for to live our lives in.

I want to live and be brave and fearless what it comes to tomorrow, what it comes to what ever there is awaiting for me. I don't want to be tied up to the past, however nostalgic I am, no, I want to be free from the past and only let it enter my life as something I have learned from and something that has been an important part of me. I leave my heart to every place I live in, in every person I love, in every work I do, on every road I walk; I leave my heart and it does not make me less whole but actually on the contrary it makes me more full. As that is what it is all about, life: the more I have lived through joys and sorrows, the more I have loved, the richer I become.

I don't want to please anyone. I want to be loved and appreaciated the way I am, and that is what we all should be, should we not?

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Sometimes there are so many things to be said and so little words to say it all. So little time to give to each other. Sometimes I feel like shouting all aloud. Hear me please! Please stop and listen for a while, there is something I would like to say to you.