if you listen to others, and stop listening to yourself,
you will suffer, and believe it is a mistake.
if you believe in yourself, and be happy being who you are, you will be blessed. acceptance.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955