Identity Crisis

Why do we ask so much of people?

Why are so reluctant to accept change?

Why do we just shut a person out

When we realize they’re not the same

If you’ve ever said to a person

You’re not the person I once knew

Maybe you should find out what brought the change

Maybe then you’d know what to do

Cause instead of turning your back

On the friend you once had

You could learn to accept the new them

Cause chances are they aren’t that bad

It seems like since last August

No one has recognized me

Cause I’m in college, I’ve evolved

And I’m much different than who I used to be

I get home and my hair’s different

Suddenly everyone thinks I’ve gone insane

I just wanted something new in my life

It’s not like I changed my name

I started to ask myself.

What had I done wrong?

Why was I losing these people?

Or was it something continuing all along?

I drove myself crazy trying to figure it out.

I tried to become the same guy I had been

I tried to measure up to my past.

But I had changed way too fast.

I learned that the new things about me

The parts of myself that everyone seemed to hate

They were still parts of me and who I am

and if they loved me, my family and friends would tolerate.

Doesn’t matter if everyone hates you.

You can never ever hate yourself.

Cause even when no one else can or will,

You have to love yourself.

And I won’t lie to you.

You may lose some people along the way.

But the ones who love you regardless,

They’re the ones you want to stay

This is a lesson I had to teach myself.

It’s one I hope I can impart to you.

Just be yourself at all times

and let people hold on to that person they once knew

Feel like I'm suffering an identity crisis half the time. I'm sick of people telling me what feelings & thoughts should or shouldn't be mine.

— Ω̴̩̩̩̥VΩ̴̩̩̩̥ Jay (@princexhermes) April 20, 2013