STREET DOGS

HATERS hate that’s what they do. Gossipers gossip. Doers do. Talkers talk. Workers work. Lovers love. Singers sing, worshippers worship. Fighters fight, winners win. Believers believe that’s what they do. Just find out what are you. So that you would know what to do. Know your identity. Define yourself and work towards your definition. Power of tongue + Power of thoughts = Power of behaviour. If you think you are a failure then you would fail. If you think you are loser then you would lose. So be careful of what you think of yourself — De philosopher Dj kyos.

We have this weird thing in the world where you don’t get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are — John Green.

People try to make you like themselves, not because they’re better, they’re not. They just don’t want to be the only ones like themselves. And deep in their hearts they don’t feel quite right — Anon.

There’s all this pressure in our society to be beautiful, to be strong, to be sexy. So we spend our time and money on trying to become these things. We put on the high heels, the suits, the makeup, the mask. Then, we feel more awkward than confident, so we drink away our anxieties.

That doesn’t make us look any sexier — it just makes us stop caring about how we look. It’s lunacy. We’re all running around trying to become something that we already are. You know what’s really sexy? A person who’s 100% comfortable with themselves. And you know what’s really funny? It is just as time-consuming and difficult to learn to be yourself as it is to pretend to be someone else. The only difference is, with self-acceptance, one day, it’s not hard anymore — Vironika Tugaleva.

Michel Pireu — e-mail: pireum@streetdogs.co.za