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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” - O.W.

Today is a day where I am bored to tears and when this happens I tend to over analyze everything. In doing this, I have realized that most people around me have the incapability to "be themselves". Whether it is the clothes they wear, the phrases they say, the people they surround themselves with, or the choices they make in life - it seems it is all for someone else. My question is why? It seems to me that you would want to make every choice to benefit yourself and not others; not making choices for attention or praise. What most don't realize or fail to see is that the only people that will be standing with you in the end aren't those who you copied, those you tried to show off to, or those people you trusted with your most intimate secrets. It will be God, your family, and yourself. Those who you worked so hard to impress won't be there to face the choices you made, or the consequences that come from your actions. I urge you - look deep within yourself, follow your heart, and live for yourself.

From this, you will experience the true happiness you have been so desperately trying to seek and obtain. Emotions are fleeting and ever-changing. If you place all of your emotions in someone elses' hands and expect them to keep you on an even keel - you are dooming yourself to live a very unhappy life. No one should ever have to carry that burden, nor should you ever ask. Your happiness is dependent upon you. Until you learn to keep yourself content, no one else will ever be able to. This is something that has taken me many years to realize, and even to this day I have a hard time following my own advice. I am sending these words out into internet land in hopes that it finds those who are in similar situations and facing these same trials. Maybe I can help you, help yourself - before its too late.