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I’ve never been the cool kid at school, the only times I got to sit at the back of the school bus was when nobody else had or was going to. I rarely got invited to the parties and if I did, I was the kid with the glass of fanta, hiding in a corner, wondering what’s so special about coca cola and why, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t fit in. Why the other kids didn’t find interesting all the stuff I found amazing, and why it is so damn hard to be a kid sometimes.
Those are the years our character starts to develop and the level of self-confidence and consciousness is set in stone. But when you haven’t been the cool kid in the past, most of the times you won’t automatically develop what in fact looks like an innate cool attitude towards the world and the people around you as a grown up. You can, but it won’t come easily.
You’ll have to work hard on yourself, you will have to write daily on a piece of paper (and then re-read) all the reasons why you adore yourself, what makes you who you are and what aspects of your personality you can still work on and make better.
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