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Have the courage to be different

“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.” – Aunt Frances”

― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

In the film Practical Magic aunt Frances tells her little niece Sally while they’re walking down the street that being normal isn’t the best way to be. For Sally just wants to be normal and fit in but her aunts are the outcasts of their town and proud to be so, they would not even be half as amazing if they would have fitted in. So Sally’s aunt Frances sees how much this inability to be “normal” hurts Sally and tries to explain to her that those “normal” people aren’t better than her but are probably less courageous than her.

Darling girl

If you’re a diehard fan of the film Practical Magic then you will have immediately recognized this quote. It is so full of love and caring, when you read those words you can just imagine how much she must love that girl. You really get a feeling of how much she wants the girl to just be true to herself.

Whenever I feel like I’m too strange or don’t fit into the box that I’m supposed to I just think of this quote and I immediately feel better. I think of all the people that love me for being myself and doing what I feel is right, all the people that wouldn’t want me to change so that I would fit in. For I’ve always known I was different, as a teenager I used to write stories while I was standing in between the lockers eating my lunch. I felt the cafeteria was too crowded and it’s not that I didn’t like my friends but more that I felt I saw them enough during our classes, I liked just being on my own during the breaks.

When I was still in primary school my best friend and I would play with our dolls and pretend that all the kids had lost their parents and now had to all live in the forest together. In hindsight playing with dolls to pretend their parents were all dead might not have been your typical playtime. But what use is being proper if you’re not having fun, because life is too short to not have fun. Right? So next time you feel pressured into being someone you’re not thinking of everyone one who loves you just for who you are?

Lack of courage?

Do you have the courage to be true to yourself, because like it says, being yourself isn’t easy but does make you courageous, and is therefore admirable. For if you just try to be like the rest, you will only ever be average at best. But if you are true to yourself however odd you might think you are people will love you even more. And the people who won’t love you are probably too afraid to be true to themselves and you should not be angry with them but show them empathy and understanding. Because being scared to be yourself must be an awful way to live, and maybe just maybe if you show understanding instead of anger they will be a little less scared of the world.

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And If we all just show everyone a bit more kindness, we just might all be courageous enough to be true to ourselves.

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