I was told, I am from the black race.
I was told, I am an Igbo from Nigeria in Africa.
I was taught to be a Christian.
They showed me an image of what I have to look like before I can be called beautiful.
They made me know that If I don't behave in a certain way, or pass some school exams (that certainly have little or nothing to do with real life issues), I will be classified as unintelligent.
They told me if I don't pass through some educational institutions, I will be called uneducated.
When I choose to wear different hairstyle and clothes, they call me primitive.
The world, no, people in the world, set their standards and judge me by it.
Whenever I do things differently from what they expect or believe, I am condemned.
They even called my posts shitty, because it didn't fulfil the standard they used to judge a good post.
In all their attempt to tell me who I am, my opinion was never consulted, neither did they allow me to tell them who they are.
I was not born a prisoner, but they bound me and threw me into the prison of their opinion. They called me what they wished and expect me to answer or get ostracized for daring to be myself.
I can no longer be a prisoner of another man's thoughts and opinions. I am who I choose to call myself.
I refuse to walk in another person's shadow.
Today, I choose to rewrite my own script.
I am unique. I am beautiful (regardless of what anyone else uses to scale beauty). I am intelligent. I am educated. I am smart. Above all, I am just me! Yeah, Me! Free from the world's description of who I am.
I will create the world I want to live in.
We are all unique. We are all special. Please don't judge me by your own standards.
The world have structured you to see yourself in relation to their opinion of you. It is time you start telling yourself who you found yourself to be.
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