It's okay to want to grow up and have pretty hair, to want to own the cutest dresses and have the best makeup. It's okay to want to be a princess and a stay at home mommy with a squadron of children to look after. It's okay to want to be the smartest, to read the most books, and have every shirt you see for the movies and books and comics that you love. It's okay to enjoy woodshop, to want to invent new things and to want your own tools to take things apart to learn how they work. It's okay to prefer fishing to getting your nails done, just the same as its okay to prefer getting your nails done to riding dirt bikes. It's okay to love the sciences, it's okay to love fashion. It's okay to love any combination of anything above, and more. You are allowed to love chick flicks, or horror movies, or action movies with giant explosions. You're allowed to like pumpkin spice anything. You're allowed to not like pumpkin spice at all. You're allowed to be who you are without shame. You're allowed to be thin, to be fat, or somewhere in between. You're allowed to have rainbow hair, or natural hair, or even no hair. You're allowed to decide that shaving isn't for you. You're allowed to shave off any hair you want. You're allowed to be polite and demure, you're allowed to give this world Hell. You're allowed to love whoever you want. You're allowed to tell someone you don't want to date them. You don't owe anyone your time. You can date anyone, no matter their gender, sex, race, or religion. You're allowed to be straight, asexual, bisexual, demisexual, gay, gender queer, intersex, pansexual, trans*. It's okay to question your sexuality and explore who and what you like. It's okay to never have sex, it's okay to have a ton of sex. It's okay to wait until you're married to have sex, it's okay to have sex before marriage. You're allowed to be angry. It's okay to smile in public, it's okay not to smile. It's okay to wear revealing clothing. It's okay to cover your body. It's okay to be a party girl. It's okay to stay at home. You're allowed to be a working mom. You're allowed to be a stay at home mom. It's okay to be a mom. It's okay if you never have children. You are not required to reproduce for the happiness of your family. It's okay to get angry when your family pushes you to have kids. You're allowed to want kids with all your being. You're allowed to be upset when you can't have kids. You're allowed to be upset when you're pregnant when you don't want to be. You're allowed to have bodily autonomy. It's okay to be a single parent. It's okay to give your baby up for adoption. It's okay to have an abortion. It's okay to make your own decisions dealing with your own body. You're allowed to do and be whoever you want to be. You deserve to be your own self. Never water yourself down for the comfort of another person, it is not your job to play mother to the world. I believe in you. I believe in each and every single one of you. Even if you don't believe that you can continually go through this life refusing to compromise who you are because of society demanding you be what they want, always remember that there is at least one person cheering you on, screaming encouragements to you, because I won't stop believing in you.
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