why do we reject what makes us special? - by Isabel

Is everyone secretly special? I have recently become attuned to how special everyone around me is. If you don't look for this though, you won't see it. We all wrap our special-ness in palatable packaging, disguising ourselves as everyone else. But why? Why is it so hard for us all to be who we truly are?

Toronto on film, October 2020 I have recently become attuned to how special everyone around me is. If you don't look for this though, you won't see it. We all wrap our special-ness in palatable packaging, disguising ourselves as everyone else. But why? Why is it so hard for us all to be who we truly are? Society is designed for us to iron out the parts of ourselves that are different. We live in a world where conformity is not only a norm, but an expectation. To resist it, you need to literally convince yourself to be yourself - every single day. This is hard to do, because it takes…

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