They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of being true to oneself despite external pressures to conform.
In this quote, Selena Gomez reflects on the struggle of conforming to societal expectations and the resultant loss of personal identity. She describes a journey of trying to fit into molds that others have created for her, only to realize that authenticity is essential to her self-acceptance. Ultimately, embracing one's true self is portrayed as a vital realization for personal fulfillment and happiness.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-acceptance and finding one's identity.
People are like, 'Be yourself, be yourself,' and I'm still trying to figure out who that is. I know I'm not perfect, but I know I have a lot of people that support me and love me, and I don't want to let anyone down, so I just try to be the best that I can be.
I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.
There's one thing I do wanna say. It's that every single one of you are just beautiful the way you are, every message that I get from you guys it just hurts me. Beacuse , if there is one person who knows what its like to get bullied, I get bullied a lot but you guys are so beautiful, please don't listen to any of that, ever, ever, ever from your school, from anything. You guys are perfect
You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a 'Like,' by a comment. That does not define you.
But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
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