Be who you want to be

If you watched the short movie you saw the ball of wool was changing herself because of the people around her. In the end she realised that she can be who she wants to be and that being different isn't that bad at all.

For me being who I want to be has just started the last couple of weeks actually. I always said I wanted to have much blonder hair. Yes, I was a blondie. But at a certain point a couple of weeks ago I wanted to change so I didn't want to be blond at all and I took the risk and coloured it red. Since then I wanted to be a bit darker red and so it happened. Also the kind of clothes I'm wearing now are much different then one year ago. And then one of my biggest changes that I wouldn't thought of in the past are my piercings. Just a couple of months ago I got my first piercing, a helix. Last week I got two more, a daith and a nose piercing. Something I would never took I mist say a couple of months ago. Another big change is also coming very soon. Wednesday I'm getting my first tattoo and I'm already thinking about more tattoos but also piercings. I can be more and more myself.

If you ask some people around me they will say I'm changing and that they won't recognise me anymore. When I'm telling them I have piercings and I'm getting a tattoo they wonder at first why. But when I'm telling them it's who I am they understand. I'm happy with my piercings and excited to get my first tattoo.

Being who you want to be is the best feeling. When you need to be someone else, someone you don't like to be it's not fun anymore. Maybe it's also a bit depressing. You need to be comfortable with who you are not being in discomfort.

It can also be that you don't have find yourself yet. Give it time! One day you will find who you want to be. I'm not telling you that I have found myself completely yet. But little by little I do. It took me a couple of years and I can finally be myself. Sometimes you also need a little push to become who you want to be.

Also becoming yourself is hard. You need to get through a lot of things. These things can be good but also bad. It can even be hell. In the end you will be happy that the things that happened, happened. If they didn't you wouldn't be who you are and who you want to be. Everything happens for a reason, someone once told me. And it's the truth!

So the moral of the story is that you don't need to change for anyone not even someone you love. You need to be yourself around everyone and if they don't like who you are they don't need to talk to you. Be who you want to be and you're getting stronger and more confident.

Toinon