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Only by listening to yourself can you get to know yourself and be happy with who you are. But, there can be so much fear in not being uniform, straight out of the educational and societal production line. There is so much pressure to dim your voice and to conform—the unthinking, unfeeling, un-living are rewarded while dissenters are criticised, rejected, judged, marginalised and punished by those who are most invested or most in need of a uniform. Don’t cower from being yourself. Let yourself be known, which by consequence, will make you independent, non-conforming and alive.