Never Photoshop Yourself

The thing about impressing people

Olabanji Stephen
1 min readMar 17, 2021

The thing about trying to impress people is that when you win, you still lose. You lose because you have to keep up with it and you might lose yourself in the process.

You lose because the base of the relationship is not real. Oh! What happens when a better impresser shows up?

You know what might be cool? Being yourself!

The thing about being yourself though is, you have to know yourself, who you are, who you want to be, what you want, don’t want, what you like, don’t like…

Knowing yourself is a practice. Being yourself is a choice

You can practice having a good relationship with yourself and explore all the many ways you can change the world… because you can.

You can choose to be that person (you) and be comfortable in your own skin regardless of who is in the audience.

You can choose freedom, the freedom that comes with clarity.

You can choose.

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Olabanji Stephen
Olabanji Stephen

Written by Olabanji Stephen

I see the world differently and attempt to interpret it in ways that inspire genius

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