Sometimes when you are looking to cheer up, something just pops up out of the blue to tell you it is okay. These words did that for me: “Life gets better when you are no longer trying to be everyone’s cup of tea”. I know that I am not everyone’s cup of tea and I don’t even want to be because that just sounds too boring and ordinary but I guess it is hard to live in a world where you are judged by those common tea standards. It is also hard when people do not realize that everyone needn’t be everyone’s cup of tea so why not meet people on their own terms instead of trying to evaluate them by common standards? It makes me want to retreat into myself and that is hard because it takes courage to even venture out when you know it’s the same tea everywhere and you are going to stand out, one way or another. It is hard to again find that courage, and it is also hard to feel like you are doomed to be misunderstood so may as well find joy inside your own shell. Which I luckily do but the world demands that you come out if you are to amount to anything. So my conundrum is how do I come out but stay in in a way that I am not hurt by outside, if you know what I mean? One way is to find people around me who give me the same comfort that I find inside, people who are my cup of tea or people who do not keep trying to box me into some universal cup of tea. That’s what I try to do but that is also hard because people are hard…