They came and they left. You cried, but you stood your ground. You stayed tethered to hope as well as committed to dignified dreams and little victories of day-to-day life. You felt different. Then you started to change. Your smile returned with reticence before completely taking over your face. Today, you are no longer afraid to let that smile be there, and now you understand it was not about them. It was never about anyone else. This was about you from the day you were born. This was about you learning to love yourself–not letting the inferiority of the external corrupt the piety of the internal. This was your personal revolution. This was the uprising of your lifetime. And you won. . Akif Kichloo
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In this short statement, the author captures the essence of change. The meaning of this poem is that we can choose to be who we want to be and not let others tell us what we should or should not be. We can choose to be who we want to be and not let others take that choice away from us.

Source: The Feeling May Remain

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