In Time

The years will pass you by and you’ll be left with memories of yourself trying to please others but never pleasing yourself, you will be left with the memories of a life that you spent trying to be like them when you could’ve just been you. And that’s what you will end up regretting most: losing yourself. You won’t even realize it at first, you’ll feel normal and accept the fact that life has passed you by and you haven’t lived, you haven’t found yourself or you chose to destroy who you were before they told you who they think you should be, and it will hurt, in time it will start burning your chest, and your body will ache, and your eyes will feel dry because you will be letting out all the tears you’ve been holding in all these years and yes — it will be too late.

All you can do is change now, prevent it while you can because life doesn’t wait, time doesn’t stop and you don’t have much left, you only have yourself, and trust me, that is all you need. Sometimes this is how it’s supposed to go, this is what happens: you feel the need to fit in, to be liked by everyone and when they don’t notice you, you start to wonder why, and you start to change, slowly, until one day you won’t recognize yourself, and yes — it will be too late.

Let me tell you right now, before it is too late:

You are good the way you are — as cliché as it sounds — it’s true.

There will come a point in your life when you will realize you don’t need to be liked by everyone and never in your life you’ll be liked by all, and that is okay. You will come to a point in life when you’ll know that what matters most is that you like yourself, and you can’t do that if you turned into someone you’re not in the first place, can you? You will also slowly realize that you won’t like everybody yourself, and that is okay too. You can’t change others, but you can change yourself, but when you do, you need to make sure it’s for the best, and that you’re doing it for you, not for others, because once you start changing there’s no coming back, and yes — it will be too late.

Change can be good, and it is inevitable, but you get to choose whether you’ll use it in your favour or you’ll let it ruin you, turning yourself into someone you’re not.

If you are reading this now, I want you to know that everyone go through it — well, most people do — and you just need to think and decide what’s best for you, for once you need to put yourself first and think about where the change you’re about to make will lead. You need to consider your options and choose what is best for you, and you need to remember that once you want to take that path, you can’t step back, because yes — it might be too late.

If you are reading this right now I want you to realize that you will always be alone no matter how many friends you have or how many people you know; they might try to help you, but no one will ever truly understand, because that’s how people are and that is something you cannot change. You need to get comfortable with yourself, you need some time by yourself, get to know the real you, and don’t let anyone else make the decision for you. If you think of asking others what they think about your change, if you change just to please everyone else, don’t bother because yes, — it might be too late.

While you are here reading this I hope you know what you want to do and you don’t make mistakes along the way, because right here, right now, I can tell you for sure that you will make the right choice, in fact I think you already made one.

And by the way… no, it is not too late.