Self confidence

My philosophy in life has never changed and never will, don't let other people get in the way of who you want to be. There was a speaker in my Health Ed class, she was telling us about her story and how she is a survivor of HIV. She got HIV because she couldn't learn to love herself. All her life she was told that she was ugly or she didn't have long enough hair. Over time she believed them, so in order to prove them wrong she tried find people who can love her so she can feel beautiful. Later on in life she realized that you can't love other people if you can't learn to love yourself. Society thinks that being that same is "Normal" or "Standard" but isn't different beautiful? Aren't those differences the things that makes us unique. Our clothes, how we act, our choices, they all define who we are. And no one should be deprived of that. Don't let other people make you turn into the person they think you should be. You just keep being you, and I think that's perfect. Don't you?