*How to become the image of your imaginations*

Am new here, I wanna talk about how to become the image of your imaginations... The most important thing in life would be how you
perceive yourself, how you can translate the image
of your mortal being into the physical world. As
human beings we are exposed to various things
that attempt to shape our personality, our behavior
and our image and perception of our own selves.
We are constantly pushed into a box by exterior
forces that are not our identity. To be yourself in
this world is the most powerful thing you can ever
be, to have the strength and audacity to walk out
the door and show the world your true colors, this
is true strength.
You’re probably finding yourself in the predicament
of questioning your authenticity, whether you are
shining with your own colors or you’re being
influenced and shaped by outer forces. I’ve met
countless people who follow the crowd and go with
the flow, for me these people generally don’t feel
true, they feel shaped and developed like images in
the ideas of others. This generally occurs in
schools, teenagers find themselves pressured by
their fellow peers because they find importance in
being accepted, in fitting in with society that wants
them to be something other than what they
actually are. And if they do behave like themselves
they are generally excluded and are looked at as
the black sheep of the crowd. This adaptation you
might call it occurs due to fear, the fear of
exclusion, the fear of not being wanted or loved.
This is the reason why people even to this day face
identity issues and suffer from anxiety and in many
cases depression. We live in a world where
difference isn’t accepted and encouraged but put
on the spotlight and observed like bacteria under a
microscope. And if we do get put in the spotlight
for being ‘weird’ we are faced with hate speech.
Everyone has encountered hate speech in their
lives and surely has been a target of it in a less or
more severe form. Whether you were targeted for
your religion, your sexuality, your gender, your
politics, your color, your language, or any of the
things that this world deems important it is crucial
to remember that difference is uniqueness and
uniqueness is every human being.
How do you protect your identity, how do you shield
yourself from the things that try to put strings on
you and control you? One of my absolute favourite
people in this world devotes his life to being the
‘black sheep’ of society and he’s said and done a
lot of beautiful things to promote uniqueness and
weirdness:
“When you become the image of your own
imagination it’s the most powerful thing you could
ever do” – RuPaul
I find this quote deeply satisfying and inspiring
because it speaks to every human who has been
touched by the bitterness of this world. Out of
personal experience what I’ve done, and keep doing
to this day is attract people who make me feel
good about being myself and have no regrets in
distancing myself from people who do the
complete opposite to me, for in the end it’s not
worth trying to offer yourself to people who don’t
see you with the same eyes as you see them.
Remember, be yourself and if people put you in a
box, get out of it and put yourself in your own box,
decorate it however you wish and don’t take any
suggestions, it’s your box and not anyone else’s.
Finally, I’ll leave you with this quote and give you
something to think about
“Learn to love yourself, because if you can’t love
yourself, how the heck are you going to love
somebody else” – RuPaul * item