All my life I was told I am different. Sometimes it was appreciated, sometimes not so much. I was told I had energy unparalleled, sometimes appreciated, other times not. Some people tell me how much they admired me, some said I couldn’t be understood. Ever since I was a child, I was told being different is good. In school, I was told different people tend to make better lives for themselves. In movies, I was shown that the protagonist is always, well, different. These notions influenced my perspective towards life, making me crave the feeling of being different. Having said that, I was never treated like I was different, challenging my notion of me being “different”. However, sometime back I realized that I was never treated like I was different because no one wanted me to know how different I am. Every time something nice happened to me, every time I said something exceptional, people tried to normalize how exceptional these things were. That is when I could understand how I coul
The crown isn't just a mere ornament to be worn, it's a privilege and a burden. For you sit with your head high, the crown embellished with precious stones, while the others bow. Privilege. But, you can not look down, for even a slight tilt of the head, can make you lose the crown. Burden. For you can wave and smile when thousands gather around to get just one glimpse of you. Privilege. But you can't laugh your heart out when you find something funny in front of those same people. Burden. But it's rare to find a person who can do both. The crown has the final say in everything yet the bearer of the crown doesn't have a voice. But the true monarch can't be just anybody, because the bearer of the crown might be a puppet of these strings, but a monarch is one who controls everything. Smile when they have to, laugh when they want, hold their heads high when they have to but tilt their heads in disagreement when they want to. Privilege and burden exist for tho