Being different — an everyday struggle
The feelings that I carry with me every day, thoughts swirling my mind all my life but never articulated laid bare in few simple lines.
Michelle Obama's words are always relatable. No matter the vast differences in our journey, circumstances, culture, upbringing, and life experiences it feels that she is talking about me in every sentence, talking directly to me.
Being different, defying odds, fighting to fit in is exhausting, the spirit diminishes a li'l everyday. The fighting is tiring when you do it day in day out. Many a times you just want to give up and let go. Let the world step on you, label you, keep being difficult.
It's a lonely feeling.
Something only you and you alone go through, something that people just won't get so why bother to explain. But the feelings remain....festering up...never uttered. The frustration that comes with the world that's not designed for you and is more rigid in adapting to changes. Reading these lines gave me a moment of clarity, of acknowledgment, of being seen, of belonging, of realisation that I'm not alone. These feelings and obstacles and emotions are so universal, we tend to often forget.
The world won’t change overnight, it won’t change in few months’, or even years' time. But words such as these give me hope. A gentle nod that there are others. And together, we can be different.
