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Grace Kiconco Uganda
Student @ Makerere University Business School
Kampala, Uganda
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In People and Society 1 min read
Be EXTRA!
<p>You were not made to shrink yourself into something easier to hold.</p><p><br/></p><p>Be loud when joy finds you.</p><p>Laugh with your whole chest.</p><p>Take up space at the table and in the room and in your own life.</p><p>Wear the dress that sways too much.</p><p>Speak with your hands.</p><p>Send the long text.</p><p>Say “I love you” first.</p><p>Cry honestly.</p><p>Smile without apologizing for it.</p><p><br/></p><p>Girl, be too much.</p><p><br/></p><p>Be the kind of person who dances in the kitchen while the food burns a little.</p><p>Who stops to feel sunlight on her skin like it’s a blessing.</p><p>Who sings in cars, in showers, in supermarkets.</p><p>Who claps too hard at concerts and takes blurry pictures because she was too busy living the moment to frame it perfectly.</p><p><br/></p><p>Life is not asking you to become smaller.</p><p>The world already has enough muted people, enough half-lived lives, enough hearts trained to whisper instead of roar.</p><p><br/></p><p>So giggle.</p><p>Run barefoot.</p><p>Fall in love with mornings again.</p><p>Buy yourself flowers for no reason.</p><p>Splash in the waves even if your clothes get ruined.</p><p>Tell your friends you adore them.</p><p>Celebrate tiny victories like they’re birthdays.</p><p><br/></p><p>And when they call you dramatic, emotional, intense, soft, sensitive, overwhelming — smile.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because at least you lived.</p><p>At least you felt everything fully.</p><p>At least your life was not a quiet hallway of almosts.</p><p><br/></p><p>You only get one life.</p><p>One face to turn toward the sun.</p><p>One heart to open.</p><p>One chance to become someone unforgettable to yourself.</p><p><br/></p><p>So be extra.</p><p>Be radiant.</p><p>Be alive.</p>

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