This wasn't today's original post, but after my laptop decided to do an update and destroy my original, I decided to say 'screw it' and just write a new post altogether. I'll have some new posts on the Letters next week, anyway. It didn't HAVE to get done today, I just prefer writing letters because of their unique perspective. In any case, I digress. I went onto google to find quotes about self-reflection and improvement, and instead found the above quote... however, it did inspire me and I wanted to share my thoughts on it.
My interpretation of this quote is that you should always be yourself and always seek to make yourself happy and gratified in your own life, because spending time trying to edit yourself to be an image someone else would want is rather pointless. So many of the people in your life are temporary, and even at 15 I'm already seeing this. I've gone through so many friendships that I thought would be unbreakable, and now those same people won't even glance at me when we pass on the street. It's as if we've reverted back to strangers. And in a way, I guess we have. We've both changed and grown into two uniquely different people. I could no longer tell you almost anything about the person I see, and I doubt she could tell you anything about me. That's a moot point, however, and perhaps the subject of another blog post in the future. Imagine, though, if I had centered my entire being and personality around this one friendship... only to lose it. Imagine if I had changed my lifestyle to suit this person, only for them to leave. I would've been a person who wasn't truly me... for someone no longer in my life. Once you alter yourself, it can be very hard to go back to who you were before... or back to yourself, in general. Even when the person leaves your life, the change they inspired remains.... and that change can be seen by anyone who encounters you, aside from one small detail: instead of seeing it as a change, people who didn't know you prior will take it as your true identity, and chances are that it will slowly become that if you don't recognize it in time. Now, I do know that changing for someone and not knowing how to go back to being yourself can be terrifying- you feel as if you've given up a large part of your own identity, and a loss of self-identity is horrible. I look at life through the lens that something once lost can never be re-gained. While that may sound a bit pessimistic, I see it as a chance to start over. Fresh opportunity, if you will. Instead of trying to go back to who you were, look at your lack of identity as a way to become who you were meant to be. Take the lessons you've learned, and build from them. Build, build, and keep on building until you are fully happy with the person you've become. At the end of the day, you will die for your own life. Not for anyone else's. Make sure you've lived a life worth dying for. - Maddie
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