Encouragement to keep going...... :)

Ever feel like once you get yourself on the right track, and you are feeling good about yourself and motivated to be better, do better, live better.........that others seem to look at you different, like "who does she think she is...miss I am all that...i think.i am better than others...". Maybe its just me, but every time I get to a good place in my life, that seems to happen to me. Then I have the tendency to start to try to care less, dumb myself down, lower my standards, give in to peer pressure, just to please others so I will fit in and not be talked shit about. I have done this my whole life.....girls are very cruel. They always like to gossip and criticize about each other. If you don't dress like them, talk like them, shop like them...etc....YOU will be the one they single out. For that reason, most girls never really just be themselves, they are always trying to live up to that clicks  standard.  This has bothered me my whole life, but I have finally came to a place in where I am honored to not fit in. I am comfortable enough and confident enough now FINALLY to understand it is not an insult to not fit in. It just means I am authentic to who I really am, and God has made me stronger. I will never be a follower, even if it means I walk alone. It can be lonely and really hurt at times, but then I remember how even Jesus got mocked and people were two faced to him. It just comes with living your true purpose, whatever it is. I have some great girlfriends, just having one of those reflective moments. The main thing I want to convey is that it is okay to do your own thing. It is ok to strive to always be better and do better. If anybody has a problem with it, that just means you are on the right path! So stay bold in yourself and don't ever let the world make you lose you drive to do good or your smile. There are MANY people happy to be complacent, but a rare few who have the will to be the best they can be! I have a LONG LONG LONG  way to go LOL, but I chose that path. Hope it inspires anybody else who struggles with this as well. SMILE....HOLD YOUR HEAD HIGH, and humble your heart. Great things will happen then! :)  Just had to write this to help encourage myself to stay on the positive path, and anyone else who may need this.