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Our perception of ourselves is all; if we have no perception of ourselves then we have no respect or love for how we are so that alone makes it of urgent importance no matter who we are or what we are.
The situation happened when I was at California and me and my family were on the beach, I changed into my swim suit to go swimming and my mom took.one look at me and told me that I had to lose weight and my brother laughed with his friends and it made me feel fat n ugly
It wasn’t too shocking because I know I’m thick but it was hurtful for someone else to say it.
I felt clumsy when I was walking through the forest with tj and I mistake fell into mud and he called me a clutz
To me it was harsh and embarrassing but to tj it was highly amusing
When I hang out with tj and Austin and they are doing athletic things for example Austin is great with parkour and tj is a pro kick boxer however my only talent is animals, I’m not athletic at all so I felt like a misfit
It is frightening to me when Austin jump from heights and lands on his feet safe and it is scary how tj knows how to break eight bones in a person’s rib cage by hitting them in the right spot so yes
Because we realize that if we made that decision it would have been idiotic
People choose to ridicule their previous decisions because some people make very idiotic decisions, for example most people ridicule others decisions because they wouldn't have made that decision. I ridicule my decisions because I know the outcome of my other decisions because they would have had a worse outcome
The experience of being called fat made me feel like I was unhealthy and unattractive, the feeling of being a misfit I feel as though it hurts anyone in reality however being different is being proud to stand alone. The feeling of ridiculing my past decisions gives me the confidence to always make good decisions in the future because I can see what’s wrong and right, it has affected me deeply in my life for example those

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