“I had to constantly try and fit in it and it really exhausted and tired me. I don't regret it because that was my learning to learn to come to this point of loving myself unconditionally.”

Meaning

This reads as a painful account of conformity, followed by a clearer sense of self. It can be taken to mean that trying to belong in the wrong way can drain you, but that the struggle still teaches something important about who you are. It lands with force for anyone who has felt out of place at school, at work, or in a social circle and later found relief in self-acceptance.

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Originally said in English.

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