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Am I enough?

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I think there's a good metaphor here for standing out or being yourself. There's a short window when all the huge fields of flowers bloom in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. I drove past a big field of these gold-orange flowers and noticed random specks of purple. I pulled over and saw this magnificent violet-colored flower sticking out in this row of the gold-orange flowers. I cropped this so it can scale down to a standard widescreen desktop background.
Yes you’re enough, just the way you are!

Ever wondered what it takes to be different than the rest?

While we were young, we were taught to be different than the people around - thats how we would grow up, and develop our identity, was all we were told and taught.

Fortunately- unfortunately, I was born different.

I looked different, I behaved different, I talked different, I even thought different.

I was happy, because I was putting into action what we were all sold. Lest I knew, what that would make me feel when I entered the real world.

For women, it's important to fit a conventional prototype. The world has made moulds into which women should fit.

She has to look a certain way, dress up a particular way, talk-walk-behave a peculiar way.

But sadly, I wasn't exactly that - rather, far away from that.

I didn't fit the conventional beauty standards;

I was fast and furious, ambitious, workaholic, career-oriented, a go-getter - exactly how women shouldn't be.

All throughout my childhood and teenage, I was made to feel different, because I was probably a misfit. But I was too naive to blame others, so I blamed myself for being an introvert, and the black sheep.

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Dr Foram Parikh
Dr Foram Parikh

Written by Dr Foram Parikh

A dermatologist by profession, and an avid reader and budding writer by passion! From turbulent relationships to work - you'll find everything here.

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