"Acceptance" By MirrorImage

Story Name : Acceptance

Author : FluffyGoofy

Genre : Slice of life, fantasy

Acceptance

I'm weird. That's what I had thought when I found myself being different from others. It wasn't like this always. But when I hit my puberty and realised about myself I found myself thinking about it often. When I saw boys and girls of my age falling in love with their fated partners I too dreamt of it. Later when I realised that falling in love is considered good only when someone feels for the 'opposite sex' I didn't understand why. I was a kid at that time. Influence of Internet was practically nil. Mostly I was scared. To be judged, to be looked down upon, to be an outcast in the society which I was always in. It's funny isn't it? You like someone of the opposite sex and confess to him/her then that's love. But when you fall in love with the same gender it's a sin. My parents too told me it was a sin and that they never expected me to become the biggest mistake of their life. As people say it, 'I came out of the closet' when I had completed high school and got a job. They warned me and told me to date a girl and settle down as soon as possible. Why is that whenever you like both genders, same gender or you like someone who's considered an outcast it's known as 'coming out of the closet'? Did the people in the ancient time who first discovered love thought opposite sex love was a taboo? No right? Then why do we people who are labelled as the LGBTQ community have a label for accepting who we are? I had understood it pretty later that it was all about extending our hierarchy and in reality people didn't give a damn about who falls for who. All they want to see is you holding a child in your hand.I didn't want to be in a society which didn't care about my choices. I wasn't a kid anymore so why would I care? I moved out of my parents house. But still every society is same. I was still scared. It was painful for me to accept myself. But I had to do it because if I don't accept myself who will? No one. It took time and I accepted myself. The fear didn't go. The society didn't change. Nothing changed. Except the fact that I was able to understand I wasn't weird. Nothing was weird with me. I had accepted myself. And that's what mattered because we come to the earth alone. Live alone. And die alone. No matter whom we live with throughout our life we never show our raw selves to them. Our insecurities don't let us show them. But as long as we can accept our flaws, our scars and our selves nothing can make weak. We ourselves stand by our side. I stood by myself and I still am. Acceptance taught me to be strong.

The End

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