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Come As You Are - Rachel Macy Stafford, 2016
Come as you are,
Come with your quiet strength or shaky confidence.
Both take bravery and practice.
Don’t let fear stop you from saying yes to life’s invitations.
Come as you are,
Come with your mistakes, your goofiness, your humanness.
People will love you more for it because then they can be real too.
Come as you are
Come with what you love about yourself—whether it’s your hair, your handwriting, your smile, or the way you stand up for friends. Come with what you love about yourself even on days you can’t find anything. By showing up, you’ll make that important discovery.
Come as you are,
Come with what you want to hide. Come with what makes you insecure.
I promise, that person sitting next to you has insecurities too.
Together, you can bring those hurts into the light of day where they can no longer hold you back.
Come as you are,
Come with your obnoxious laugh, your funny sneeze, your out-of-tune voice. Come with what makes you YOU. You might not realize it, but someone breathes a sigh of relief at the sight of you.
Come as you are,
Come with your decision to pay no mind to the haters. Refuse to let their jealousy or toxicity sabotage this moment in your life. Keep shining. Someday you’ll look back and be glad you didn’t let someone else dim your radiance.
Come as you are, and offer the same acceptance to others.
Come as you are with welcomeness to the excluded.
Come with one kind thing to say, especially when others are staring and talk is cruel.
Come with kindness, and it will come back to you in ways unimaginable.
Come as you are,
Come with your dreams, no matter how silly or outlandish.
You are capable of those dreams. I’ve seen you in action—there is no limit to what you can do.
Come as you are, just as you are.
Resist the pressure to conform.
Resist the pressure to be like someone else.
Be your beautiful, radiant, one-of-a kind self.
There is nothing more freeing than loving yourself “as is.”
Come as you are, you don’t need to change a thing—not today, not ever.
Come as you are so your beautiful light can shine.
You are living beacon of hope.
P.C. Steve Lenz
