You, brave soul, are free to be you.
Go find yourself. Discover who you are.
Figure out what you like and don’t like.
You don’t live by someone else’s rules anymore.
That voice in your head that is always telling you what to do?
Shut it up. Shut it out. That’s not you.
Find your voice.
Search for it with everything you’ve got.
It may start out small and timid. It may sound quiet and weak.
But oh, my dear, how it will grow.
Use that voice.
It will become stronger. It will become braver.
It will speak to places that have been silent for far too long.
And that voice? That beautiful, magnificent, bold, gentle, confident voice?
That voice is yours. Caged no more.
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