I've always felt invincible all my life

I can't recall exactly when it started but it has been there since I was a young girl.

Since I was old enough to get compared to other kids my age and to be told the expectations of the life I had to live.

The thing about comparison is that it snatches away the simple joy of life and brings about inconsistency. Those are only what it sell.

Makes you always on the look out for what people are doing in order the judge if yours is good enough or not.

Never makes you confident in your own choices and in your own being, so of course you'll feel invincible!

A shadow chasing after shadows of other people's dream but not one of itself.

Embracing other people's flaws but not one of her own!

A child so young yet drowns in thousand voices that are not even hers...

Comparison scarred my life in every crippling way possible.

But now that I'm older, I know better.

But how do I relay this message to the younger me who was desperate to be visible in her own being.

How do I make her understand that she was never invincible…just useen 

But how