<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361606" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Accept Me As I Am</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All my life I’ve always worried <br>what others thought of me. <br>When I was young, I was self-conscious <br>about the way I looked <br>and then about the job I did. <br>The worries just compounded <br>driving me back into a shell of loneliness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It took me a long, long time <br>to realise just who I was. <br>If someone didn’t like me <br>that was their problem. <br>I was who I was, <br>not what everyone else <br>wanted me to try to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If no one liked what I did <br>that was their issue not mine <br>so long as it was legal, <br>I was who I was. <br>Why should I pretend <br>to be someone <br>I was clearly not? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that I am older, <br>I don’t really care anymore. <br>You can accept me as I am <br>and if you don’t, then tough. <br>Don’t try telling me I’m wrong <br>in the way I think <br>because your words don’t matter anymore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">8 June 2011</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Harris">David Harris</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361606" data-title="Accept Me As I Am de David Harris" data-description="All my life I’ve always worried what others thought of me. When I was young, I was self-conscious about the way I looked and then about the job I did. The worries just compounded driving me back into a shell of loneliness. It took me a lo..."></div> </div> </div>

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