sometimes I wonder

who you might be

under the sheets of

smiles and happiness?

does your heart

hides behind facades

of good music and

laughter?

are you someone

too hurt to love,

a song listened to

but not 'til the end?

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In the heavy heavy book that is life, our friends, family, classmates, collegues, and the people we meet in a day to day basis has an impact towards how we feel and what those feelings say. At times, it doesn't matter what our feelings are towards ourselves, rather we let the surrounding people be the thoughts of our feelings. When people praise us for a job well done, our confidence is being lifted, but when we lend our ears into those we don't need, we tend to split and it puts us in a depressing state of non-complacency.

STOP!

Stop grinding away at yourself, because other people say otherwise. The only person that has a say, is you. There is 86,400 seconds in a day, don't let 10 seconds of negativity affect the rest. Ascend, take the wheel of your life and drive towards your dreams. All people are entitled to their own opinion, and your opinion, and your future is the difference to making a better life. Are you willing to change, to be uncomfortable, to throw everything, and start learning again?

Throughout my life, I've always operated under the impression that other people's opinions matter. No matter how gruesomely bad it was, I still took it to heart, and this would affect me for the many years to come, until I stopped.