So what if I’m not like you? I’m different.

Everyone has an opinion now…don’t they? Is this a reason for me to be neglected?

I do my own thing. My thoughts and opinions are not to your liking, I get that. I don’t live for your approval. I don’t wake up every morning to live for you. I know you find my personality to be shocking. I’m only human.

So what if I’m not as you expected?

I don’t want to be molded into someone, something new. I like to stand out. On this I stand strong. To be an individual.

It really doesn’t make any difference now to me if you don’t like what you see. But you try to tie me down. You try to clip my wings, so I cannot fly.

I pay no mind to the negative kind; it’s just no way to be. I don’t stop to please someone else’s needs. I live my life for me.

So what if I’m different? So what if I’m too headstrong?

I’m not going to change to please you. You say I rebel…but I’d rather a girl who voices her mind whether you think I’m right or wrong.

Say what you will. What you think about me is your opinion.

In the end time will reveal…I will still be here with my head held high and love in my heart.

I refuse to change. Take me as I am or leave me alone. I have time to kill.

As you sit there deciding on how to make me your clone, I just smile because I am happy with who I am and who I am becoming. And I’m comfortable with being me. No matter the pressures that face me.

I will always choose to be me. Hated by all or loved by all. I know who I am and whose I am. I will not settle for anything less.

I know what I deserve.

Loving myself, now that’s the true key.