Why does your body look like that...

     I never actually thought, that someday I will be writing this down for more than 200 people to read. But I feel by letting this go, I'll overcome one of the biggest obstacles I've ever faced.

    Let me take you back to when I was 3 years old, asleep in my room, extremely hot and thirsty and all I could've done is to call for mom, I asked her to bring me some water. She came with a glass of water on her hand and asked me to grab it, and all I was saying is mom turn on the light it's dark in here. I can hear my mother's screams in my head till this day, Yeah I lost sight. My dad came running from work and they rushed to the hospital, my fever reached 42 and it was destroying my retina. I was then diagnosticated with a bacterial disease called "Meningitis"( it's a is an acute inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. 1 of every 7 survivors is left with a severe handicap, such as deafness or brain injury). the only thing that doctors had to tell my parents is to pray. I've spent 3 months in the hospital. Where I got back my sight but lost the ability to control my legs and been also paralysed for a while. But thank god I survived with the minimum amount of damage, I can't spend much time in the sunlight, a burn on my left leg caused by the high fever also something that most people wish they had, The ability to eat as much food as I like without gaining weight.

   While growing up, my body caused me a lot of trouble, Specially Bullies. I had a load of nicknames back in school, starting from lolly to a broom, I was also called by something close to a freak because I couldn't stay in the Sun. I've been asked if I don't eat enough food and stuff like that... Yeah, I've spent nights crying because of that. But with time I realized that crying wouldn't help at all, and I should do something about it. How I overcame that I'm going to talk about it maybe later.

   Long story short, for the past 20 years I've been struggling with that, But at least I did accept it and learned to live with it. Bullies won't cease to exist, we all know that, And as long as we keep trying to change the way they look at us, they won't stop bullying us. If they call you fat, laugh about it, If they call you ugly, tell them that you are. Then slowly they will stop coming after you. And always remember, Nobody has the right to judge you because no one is perfect enough to do that. And as Brigitte Nicole said " No one really knows what you have been through. They don’t know about the long hard road you had to travel to get you where you are today. Of course, people will always make up their own versions about the details of your life, but they can only speculate. Because no one truly knows what’s in your heart."