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About embracing oneself

Back then when I was in high school, one of my very good friends came to me and wonderingly asked why guys seemed more interested in me despite having so many flickers all over my face. Until then, I had never been asked such a hard question in my life. I don’t remember how I answered back to her but that incident made my self esteem so down. I started feeling awkward whenever any individual used to come near to me in the fear that they would notice my flickered face. I started becoming more conscious. Even if I found someone looking at my face, I had this sensation that s/he would probably be counting how many flickers I had, or deciding which is the biggest of all - anything related to flickers! I won't lie. I started to search everywhere possible to get rid of this flickered face. I tried many of them too. But they were natural things on me and too stubborn to detach. " Make your skin fairer and shine bright like no other! " I think like me everyone of us h...

The Smartest One

I am a law student so I need to be smart. This is how people perceive me. Well, there are lots of things like, politics, technology in which I am so naive. In fact, often I feel like a dull- witted in the group of baboon headed people in my classroom. It sucks more because there is actually no one who comes up and says that "its okay not to know things" and I end up saying something stupid most of the times. But I read a quote early this morning which said, " If you are the smartest in the room, then you are in the wrong room, " and this changed my whole vision upon how I looked at my friends and their talks. I was brought up in such an environment where I was taught to be the smartest and the best in the classroom. I was taught to learn from my friends but still never to let them win me in any marathons or competitions or exams. So basically, I was called the smartest if only I won in everything. What I was failed to be taught in my school was, learning ...