I always tell people that if you ever need the clear story of what happened, please don’t ask me. Not that I won’t be able to tell you what happened but someway somehow I’ll find a way to over narrate it. Yes, I’ll exaggerate it. If the person fell down, I’m not exactly going to tell you he/she fell down. I’ll say the person somersaulted.
I don’t even do it intentionally, it just comes naturally. People see me to be a very dramatic person and of course I am. I won’t even deny it. I am always energetic, hyper and happy. You will rarely catch me sad. I mean even if I am sad, you can set your timer for 2 minutes and if you still catch me sad after 2 minutes then I’m probably hungry. There have been times I’ve cried because I was sad and then someone would ask why I’m crying and girl! I don’t even remember.
It has always been like this. Sometimes it gets exhausting to be hyper all the time but it’s more harder to be someone you are not so I can’t pretend I’m a calm person. I’m definitely one of the liveliest persons you’d ever meet. I mean my drama comes with laughter. Everyone who knows me know that you can’t be around me for two minutes and not laugh. Unless as I said, I’m hungry.
It’s alright that people see me as dramatic but sometimes I wish they would see me as a calm person too. I’ve tried so many times to be calm and normal about situations but I don’t know why I always end up escalating my descriptions about incidents. I remember in 2020, my new year resolution was to force myself to stop being dramatic and become a calm person but then right on the first day of 2020, my brother pinched me and I fainted. Of course, it wasn’t real fainting, that was me at it again.
I can be calm sometimes when I want to be but I realized that the people who love you for who you are never need you to change for them. I can’t pretend to be someone I’m not and I can’t change people from the way they see me so guess what? We’ll continue being as dramatic as we want. (Mic drop!. Picks it back)
oh thank you all for your time and it doesn’t matter what people say about you, just keep on being you if it makes you happy or work on yourself if you think what they are saying is true and bad. (Final Mic drop, exits stage, crowd gives me a standing ovation)
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