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    The Want To Be Accepted
    The Want To Be Accepted
    The Want To Be Accepted
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    The Want To Be Accepted

    By Amber Kemppainen

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    Wanting to be accepted is something everyone wishes at least once in their life. Always looking in the mirror and looking at people on social media who are really fit, wishing you could be that fit. That's when people start trying to change themself so those fit people will accept them and not reject them. When you have a want to be accepted, your attitude starts changing. You try to act and be like those fit people but all it does is cause stress, anxiety, and depression. You have a fear that if you don't get fit or act like them, nobody will accept you. The truth is it doesn't matter if they accept you or not. You have to change for yourself and not to impress others.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateMar 13, 2021
    ISBN9781716398254
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      The Want To Be Accepted - Amber Kemppainen

      The Want To Be Accepted

      By: Amber Kemppainen

      Copyright © 2021 Amber Kemppainen All Rights Reserved.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

      ISBN: 9781638485636

      Table Of Contents

      Introduction ………………………………….. 3
      Chapter 1 ………………………………………… 8
      Chapter 2 ……………………………………….. 14
      Chapter 3 ……………………………………….. 22
      Chapter 4 ……………………………………….. 29
      Chapter 5 ……………………………………….. 33
      Chapter 6 ……………………………………….. 40
      Chapter 7 ……………………………………….. 50
      Chapter 8 ……………………………………….. 57
      Conclusion …………………………………….. 67

                              Introduction

      Many times in life but mostly starting at an early age you might feel like you’re out of place and you don’t belong. For me this was very much the case as growing up the children in my school and in my neighborhood would constantly make me feel like I was different and strange. It brought me a lot of anxiety and made me feel like I needed to do anything I could to get them to accept me.

      And as anyone who has ever done this can tell you, it did not end well. I ended up getting in a lot of trouble in school and disappointing my parents but more importantly myself just so the other kids at school would like me.

      But despite my efforts I was never really well liked at school but things did get a little better when I grew older and got into college.

      I decided to reinvent myself into someone that everyone else would like and my peers could finally accept me. I changed the way I dressed, the way I talked and the way I wore my hair and for the first time in my life it worked. I was finally beginning to feel accepted but once I got what I was looking for I found another problem that was slowly eating away at me.

      I had changed myself so much to be liked by others that I lost myself in the process, I was no longer free to be myself and do the things I normally enjoyed. I had this constant pressure to make sure that nobody could see me for who I really was and hide the things that I thought could cause others to judge me and no longer want to hang out with me. On one hand I was feeling like I wasn’t myself anymore and had this feeling of needing to be true to me but on the other hand I felt like doing so could mean disaster and that I needed to bury those feelings deep inside of me. The problem with that is that these things never stay buried and the more you try the worse it gets.

            It wasn’t until my junior year that I finally gave into my need to be true to myself and changed my hair back, stopped dressing in crazy outfits that were designed to get attention and just wore what I liked. I was also a huge fan of the twilight books even before they did the movies and it was considered nerdy to be a fan of books, much less reading anything that was not a requirement. But I didn’t care anymore. I was done hiding so I grabbed my favorite book and started reading it in the middle of the quad.

      I thought surely that people would point it out, ridicule me or stop talking to me all together but I didn’t care anymore. I was standing up for myself and being true to me. Much to my surprise though, nobody seemed to mind at all.

      My friends complimented me on my hair and even my best friend Hannah told me that she was also a fan of the twilight books. I couldn’t believe it!

      But just as I started to get excited with Hannah another one of our friends, Sarah yelled out, wow, you’re both a couple of dorks! Everyone started laughing at us and I felt like I had a whole in my stomach, this is everything I had feared.

      Hannah saw me get upset and she placed her hand on my shoulder saying:

      -Hey! Don’t listen to them, they don’t actually

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