On your own but not alone

You might feel like you’re on your own now. And you might really be on your own. 

Maybe your family’s reaction to your coming out was something like, “Of course, we love you just as you are, but… “ 

Maybe some close friend turned their back on you for stating your opinion honestly, regardless of how respectfully you did it. 

Maybe an acquaintance or friend’s partner attacked you for no reason, just for being you, for being in some way “anti-conformist”. 

Maybe you got evicted or kindly asked to leave or fired because of not “fitting the standards” — and maybe it was done without even telling you the true reasons so you couldn’t defend yourself. 

Maybe you live in a place where you cannot even make your own choices for your own body because someone else writing the laws has decided that this fundamental right is too threatening. 

You have the right to be yourself. You have the right to choose how to live your life and what to do to your own body (as long as you’re not willfully harming anyone else!). 

You have the right to speak up.

You are lovable and loved regardless of your shape or color or age or gender or relationship choices.

You’re not alone. You might feel alone now, you might actually be on your own, living your life your own way. But trust that you’re not alone. 

There’s more of us out there, trying to live their lives authentically and respecting the right of auto-determination, for ourselves and for everyone else around us.