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Freelancer @ Federal university,Oye Ekiti
Akure, Nigeria
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THE WORLD CALLED ME ORDINARY
<p>Priceless Jewel</p><p><br/></p><p>The world called me ordinary because I did not sparkle the way they expected.</p><p><br/></p><p>So I hid my light.</p><p><br/></p><p>I learned to make myself smaller in rooms where my presence was never celebrated. </p><p>I learned to laugh when my heart was breaking,to say I’m fine when the truth wasI was barely holding myself together.</p><p><br/></p><p>I carried words that were never mine to carry not enough. Not beautiful <a class="tc-blue" href="https://enough.Not" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">enough.Not </a> special enough.</p><p><br/></p><p>And slowly,I began to believe them.</p><p><br/></p><p>Until one night,in the quietest part of my pain,I looked at myself and asked,</p><p><br/></p><p>Who told you that you needed their permission to be precious?</p><p><br/></p><p>And something inside me answered:</p><p><br/></p><p>No one.</p><p><br/></p><p>So I began again.</p><p><br/></p><p>I picked up every broken piece they convinced me to hate and held them against the light.</p><p><br/></p><p>And there I saw it</p><p><br/></p><p>not ugliness,but history.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not weakness,but survival.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not brokenness,but proof that I had been through fire and still remained.</p><p><br/></p><p>A diamond does not apologize for being formed under pressure.</p><p><br/></p><p>A flower does not stop blooming because someone calls it a weed.</p><p><br/></p><p>And a jewel does not lose its value because an unknowing hand throws it into the dust.</p><p><br/></p><p>So let them misunderstand me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Let them overlook me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Let them walk away without knowing what they lost.</p><p><br/></p><p>I will not chase anyone to prove that I am worthy.</p><p><br/></p><p>I know now</p><p><br/></p><p>I was never created to be everyone's favorite.</p><p><br/></p><p>I was created to become myself.</p><p><br/></p><p>And perhaps that is my greatest beauty:</p><p><br/></p><p>I am still <a class="tc-blue" href="https://growing.Still" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">growing.Still </a> <a class="tc-blue" href="https://healing.Still" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">healing.Still </a> becoming.</p><p><br/></p><p>But I am no longer ashamed of the woman I see when I look in the mirror.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because beneath every scar,beneath every tear,beneath every version of met hat thought she wasn't enough,</p><p><br/></p><p>there was always a Jewel waiting to remember that she was priceless.</p><p><br/></p><p>And now,I remember.</p>
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