The Person You Are

You've spent thirty years trying to be quieter, smaller, more convenient— a human-shaped apology for taking up space. Here is the truth nobody tells you at school: you were not built to fit. You were built to take up exactly the amount of room you take up— which is to say: enough. The parts you've been hiding— the laugh that's too loud, the opinions that arrive before you do, the way you cry at films about dogs and aren't even sorry— these are not the parts to fix. These are the parts that make the people who love you pick you out of a crowd. You are not everyone's cup of tea. Good. The world has enough tea. Be the thing that makes someone say: I don't know what that is but I want more of it. You are already the person you've been searching for. Stop looking. Start unpacking. You're home.