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people-pleasing
Let's go to the past a little bit,
It's 2023, I'm in the corner of my room sobbing,
I didn't know who I was anymore, different masks and identities I had formed,
I didn't know who the real me was, I had friends that I didn't like and people never really knew me,
Everyday I was drained, pleasing people and being a fake,
I hated myself because I knew I was a fake,
Will I ever change? Will I ever stop pleasing people? I asked myself constantly.
I wasn't proud of me and I felt suicidal at a point,
I was scared to hurt their feelings but here I was hurting mine every single day, and then one day I decided to stop.
I knew it was going to be hard, but I chose hard, it wasn't easy but I decided to discover myself first, every personality and mask I had put on wasn't me.
The things I...