Who Are You? And Who Told You That?

Maybe you followed the rules. Maybe you broke them.

Either way, the message was clear: who you are isn’t always acceptable.

The world will shape you if you let it. And without realizing it, sometimes you do. You start dimming certain parts of yourself. Softening your edges. Editing your own thoughts before you say them. Until one day, you wake up and wonder, "Wait. Who am I?"