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People are Books
Imagine if life were a book.
Imagine if our lives were written out for us, as if we never truly had free will.
Life would be so much easier to understand, if we had a book to know what was going to happen. Wouldn't it?
Turns out life IS a book, but the author you're looking for isn't a spiritual being, or your parents/grandparents, or even some genius scientist who figured out how to link life to a book.
In fact the author is someone you've known forever, the person you would least expect to have control over your entire life, that person, is you.
You are the author to your own story, make that story the best damn story you have ever read.
Don't let anyone or anything ruin what you worked so hard on to create.
Just imagine with me for a second what life would be like, if it were a book.
Imagine bullies didn't exist.
Imagine gays were treated as equal as their peers.
Imagine not having to worry about being different and getting judged for it.
Imagine how the world would be so much better, if judgemental people, weren't judgemental.
You can't judge a book by its cover, but you can't judge the insides of that book either.
That book may not be what you were wanting, or what you were expecting, but that book is what it is, and you don't have to like it because others do.
Give that book a chance to be what it wants to be, give that book a chance to be great, because every book is great, no matter what's on the inside or the outside.
In my opinion, books are like people, they didn't choose to be the way they are, they were made that way. Living day to day dealing with whatever “flaw” it is they have.
Life is hard as it is, there shouldn't be anyone or anything that makes it any harder, because of something that you couldn't help.
Don't let people hurt you, don't let one person be the reason you can't be happy, instead be the reason that person stopped bullying, and is making the best grades in school.
You be you, no matter what people say, because there is only one perfect version of you, and that is who you are.
Don't pretend to be something you aren't, be who you are, and don't let anyone change your opinion of who that is.
You are the only you there is, let the world experience who you are, and life could be so much easier.
Don't let anyone stop you from succeeding, and don't let anyone prevent you from being who you want to be.
You have to believe that you ARE good enough, you ARE perfect, and most importantly that you ARE just as you are, and no one, nor nothing, not even yourself, should change that.
Learn to embrace who you are, and life will follow your command.
Humans are in fact the most interesting species to ever exist, we have learned how to do so much, we have accomplished many great things. Surely, you can find your place. If another human being can do it, shouldn't you?

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I wrote this after my little brother was beaten up at school for being "different". The reason people say he is different is because he was recently diagnosed with Autism, and he acts differently from the other students. My cousin was also beat up for being different, but not autism. My cousin is gay, he has always been bullied for it. I want people who think they are different to know they are not alone, that people do care.