KIMBERLY SELENA: April 2015

This is probably going to be a very random post, but so will the next one and the one after that and so on. I had the opportunity to go visit old friends, well my parents old friends and my childhood friends. I am glad to say that the reunion made me happy and it made me reflect. As I talked to a lady she told me she will never forget why she liked me. She said that I always had this big smile in my face and that I was a very happy child. It made me proud to hear how people remembered me, with a twinkle in my eyes and a smile on my lips. What made me even happier was to hear that I hadn't lost the twinkle in my eyes and the smile on my lips.

It also made me reflect, because as a person I have changed a-lot since I was four.

They don't know the dirt I have been past and I don't expect anybody to know what happened to me in full detail. When I was in the first grade people could call me fat and I probably wouldn't have cared, but once I was in fifth grade, when the word fat was mentioned my face would hide. I grow up with that word drilled to my forehead, but I didn't give it much importance.

I was born a chubby kid, but I was also born a happy kid.

The little me was a happy kid, that didn't care whether she had friends during recess,

while she picked flowers for the teachers.

She didn't care to be last during the "mile run" in gym.

She didn't care if she wasn't a size small like the rest of the girl in her group.

She didn't care to embarrass herself while doing a show in-front of people.

But most importantly she didn't care what people thought wether it was about her weight, height, looks or clothes.

She was true to herself.

Like we should all be.

The little you will always have more courage, because they haven't experienced enough of the spiteful judgement society can offered.

But you should never let go of the little you, because it will teach you that courage is sometimes all you need when you grow up and it will remind you that you are your own person and that you should not care for the opinion people have.

Take the positive and ignore the negative.