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someone worth being
I don't know who I am
nothing more than a budding human
unsure,
trying to find my place in the world
people tell me, over and over, to just be
myself
as if its just that easy
I don't even know who that is
I am expected to have found who I truly am,
even when it is hidden
under layers upon layers of expectations and insecurities
But I can't.
I am afraid of being myself
I'm afraid there is no real me
that I am just the byproduct of people I imitate
the final result of a society that pushes and pulls
and I fear that when I peel away these layers,
I will be nothing at all.
so, stop telling me to be myself
because truly, I'm trying
and instead reassure me that there is a person underneath it all
and that they are
someone worth being
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