Who Are You?

This is a question that I was never asked when I was growing up, and is now one that I think about every single day. No kid should graduate high school without being able to answer the simple question of "Who are you". For twenty years I tried to convince other people and tried to convince myself that I was somebody that I wasn't. Everything I did was to try to fit in, be accepted, or to be cool. I drank too many beers to be cool, I treated the people around me or girls a certain way to be cool, and I said things I didn't even mean to be funny or hope it made people like me for just a second. Now everything I do is just to be me. I don't care if other people don't like it, because it is the first time in my life that I have liked me. For the first time ever I can look in the mirror and just say "Man, I'm proud of you".

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