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    • bill
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      4 years ago

      Be who you are. Ignore everything else. (Easier said than done!)

      The world often asks too much of us, and then we ruin ourselves to be approved by the world. And I think the most sinister aspect of this is that the world’s asking doesn’t often look like asking. In college and after, nearly every time I heard a voice inside my head telling me to lose weight, I couldn’t actually find the voice, or the mouth it came from.

      The violence of shaming someone is so often a result of distance between what you see in front of you and how you feel inside.

      1. Update (12/13/2019):

        The last sentence of that first quote is exactly true for me, except, in my case, the voice said “gain” instead of “lose.”