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a simple reminder from someone who swims weird

As far as I know, we only really live once.

Even if we live more lives, this one,

RIGHT NOW!

Is the one you're living.

So, by all means,

dye your hair blue.

You should pick up that violin

and play the crap out of it.

Hell, get a tattoo.

But if that's not you,

don't go there.

Buy a sweater and

cut it up, and

wear that fancy number

to the supermarket.

Pick up that paintbrush

and paint me a mural.

Paint yourself a mural, ******

But if that's just not you,

don't go there.

But please, please,

pUUUHleaaaseeeee remember

that YOU are not a

stereotype!

You don't fit into a

category!

You are you AND

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD

DON'T LOSE YOURSELF.

It is difficult to not get caught

in the stream.

Swimming upstream...

It's risky.

It's hard.

But if you stand out,

you won't be blending in.

If you're not blending in,

then you're clearly not the

same color.

Who want's to be beige

when you could be aqua?

But if that's not you...

Be beige!

BE BEIGE IN A SEA OF

PINK AND PURPLE

AND RED AND

GREEN AND BLUE!

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Written by
genevieve-moncada
Published
Jun 24, 2012
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Is this cliche? I don't know. I'm feelin' the mood, guys!

"Be yourself, because everyone else is taken."

       -Oscar Wilde, ma main man, homedog skillet

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