Stop Pretending

Easton Farmers' Market, Weyerbacher Wednesday

"If you try to be somebody else, eventually they're going to figure out that that's not you, and you're going to be really unhappy. And you'll be unhappy trying to pretend all the time."
-"Was there a time in your life when you were pretending?"
"There was, there was. When I was looking for jobs, I was trying to be somebody else, trying to do what I was 'supposed' to do and be something that I wasn't. I had to stop and go, 'Wait a minute… I need to be who I am, and if they like me I'll get a job and if they don't, then I wasn't meant to be there.'"
-"So, who are you, then, in a couple of words?"
"Hmmm… I'm a friendly, loving, and compassionate person who loves people and animals, and thinks that everybody deserves a shot."

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