As hard as standing up for yourself is, it’s just so worth it. When you see them back down and a grin crosses your face, you regret nothing. You are proud of yourself, so just try it. If you give it a touch of humor that’s what really sets you apart. Just try it and you’ll understand.

– Taylor 

Change is scary, change is frightening, but change is crucial. Change makes room for beautiful improvements, that will make the world greater. Change is something that most fear, something that you aren’t used to. That’s normal, but is anyone really normal? You can be scared, waste time worrying about something you can’t control, or sit back and watch. Watch as the world slowly gets better.

Sometimes everything goes your way, nobody calls you what you aren’t, everyone listens. But some days, you just feel like every time someone gets it wrong, slowly you energy is going down. Your tired, you don’t want to move, don’t want to tell them. You just want to fit in. Just want to go home. Just want it all to stop. Just want it to be better.

On those days it’s more important than ever to have someone to lean on, someone who you can look to. So that they can tell them for you, so that you can save your energy.

– Taylor

Crying doesn’t make you weak, it makes you compassionate. Being confident doesn’t make you cocky, it makes you sure. Being worried doesn’t make you a killjoy, it means you are safe. Being smart doesn’t make you know it all, it means you’re intelligent. Being hard on yourself doesn’t mean you are a worrier, it means that you are challenging yourself. Being different doesn’t make you a freak, it makes you awesome.

– Taylor

Here is something everyone should know, people are going to bother you. It doesn’t matter what you do, it doesn’t matter if you haven’t done anything to them. They are going to bother you. You have two options react and show that they hurt you, if you do this you’re just giving them the power. Or take away the power of the words, if I insulted you in a different language you wouldn’t care, you might even laugh. Just don’t listen, now I’m really underplaying how hard this is. Give it a try then get back to me, it’ll make it a lot easier to focus on you and what you need. Living out loud gets you some enemies, but that isn’t your fault. But having enemies actually drives you to do better, so thank them. For making them the strong person you are today. Not to mention living out loud is way more fun.

– Taylor

As you can see I made some changes because I decided that it wouldn’t as inclusive as I aimed. If you are wondering what your gender is try gender wiki, where you see gender identities it will give you a definition as well as more gender identities to explore.

– Taylor

Once in a while, you have to make a tough choice, we all have. Sometimes that’s as simple as choosing your dessert, other times it’s choosing to do the thing you know is right, but you know it’s going to be a fight, but it will be worth it. And you know that. But you’re going to get the backlash, and it won’t feel that way. But you’ll know, eventually they will thank you for it. 

– Taylor

Hope is important, whether it is just brightening others day. You have to hope that one day things will get better. Just hope that it will get better, since … well you know it will, cause it can’t get worse.

– Taylor

There are two choices, you can accept something, work through it, truly understand it. Or you can move on, forget it, sometimes one feels better than the other. Everyone is human, just a little different.

– Taylor

People are going to be dumb, everyone is once in a while. YOU JUST HAVE TO BRUSH IT OFF!!! Someone says something about you, you have half the mind to go up there and punch them, listen to the other half. Trust me I understand what it’s like to tell someone off, it feels so good. Sometimes that’s what the situation needs, sometimes it makes it 100 times worse. Or other times you need the facts if you’re going to tell off a fool. Take a second, regroup, then make a choice. Just be you.

– Taylor