Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be. No instantaneous miracle is suddenly going to occur and make you brave and courageous and true.” - Audre Lorde

I am always the hottest and most put together person at the airport.

“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road,there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.”

instead of asking:

how can i be more like them?

ask:

how can i be more like me?

how many versions of me do i occupy? where do they live? how do they grow? what will they bloom into? what rituals do they practice? how do they show care to others? what are they afraid of? what do they dream about at night?

The best way to be yourself is to not be anybody in particular but to just be.