i expect someone to disagree with this.

i've always been under the belief that i should just be myself, and know that that's good enough. but today i realized this isn't true. it's a lot deeper than that. instead of just being yourself straight up and leaving others in discomfort, while that sounds like a liberating thing to do, it's a very selfish move to make. i understand that people need to be taken out of their comfort zone to adapt, but this isn't necessarily the only route to take. i'm not talking about lgbtq+, so i don't want y'all to start bitching at me about that, because this isn't about them.

i feel like instead of just being yourself and knowing that that's good enough, i think we need to be able to prove to others, as well as yourself, that yourself is worth it and deserves to be. because not everyone's self is worthy of striving in the world. like terrorists for example.

if you want to be yourself in the world and profit and thrive off of it, you need to prove to everyone that you deserve your shine, and that you deserve to be yourself.

we are all worthy, but at the same time we are not.