The part of yourself taht is painfully eager to please

wants a hug

and never gets enough

From birth there is a yearning

an eagerness

To be loved

to be accepted

to become like one of the others

You change almost everything about yourself

the nost genuine parts of your personality

yet you are still an outsider

Slowly you accept who you are

and you start to wonder why you cared about what that girl said you needed to change

or what that boy didn't like about you

A new person starts to emerge

slowly

like a caterpillar branching out from its cocoon

And soon

the opinions of others will not matter

And number two will become number one