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#0124: Are you afraid of being different?
Education Next- Hundred and twenty four Edition
Priyanka Modi & Atharva Kumar
September 28, 2024
Reading time: 4.50 min
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Hello All,
I came across this poem by Whitney Hanson,
which talks about how we are so afraid of “being who we are”
We are afraid of being judged,
showing our true selves.
So here it goes….
“I think we spend too much time being afraid of our mediocrity
We don't want to sing too loudly in case someone finds out that we don't have a voice like glass
We don't write music because we aren't Mozart
We don't paint because we're not Picasso
We don't tell people that we love them because our voice might shake when we say it.
We try to be pretty criers,
We don't dance because we aren't that good,
The reality of our humanity is that we are all a little bit average at a lot of things.
The truth is that we're all not that good.
So stop holding yourself back from enjoying the things that you love because you're not a prodigy at everything.
Scream the song at the top of your lungs and confess you love
And let your voice be shaky
Cry big ugly tears
Dance really badly
Because life is too short to be scared of being human.”
Hope you connect with your inner self,
and have the courage to be who you are.
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This school dropout is from Assam India,
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He built an app called texts.com
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