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I'm always comparing myself to sunflowers and making plant metaphors in general tbh. its the one thing that really makes sense to me. im sorry for clogging your tl but im gonna talk about self love really fast purely because i feel like it
anyways hi im Apallo im 19 years old and i love myself to death. im far from perfect, i make tons of mistakes in everything i do, I'm not attractive in any sense, im not smart, and people generally don't like me. but i love myself a lot.
in a way im like a sunflower. a sunflower will still grow no matter how much disdain you throw at it. and a sunflower will still grow whether its day or night. sometimes i go through really hard times where i don't feel like i can keep growing-
-but sunflowers grow taller after heavy rain. sometimes i don't think I'm growing fast enough or tall enough and sometimes i don't think im pretty enough to be a sunflower.
but sunflowers don't care if they're pretty. all they do is point their petals towards the sun and bloom. sunflowers don't care how tall or how fast they grow; they grow at their own pace. they make the best of their environment and all they wanna do is grow.
and beauty is nothing more than a byproduct of achieving that goal. i may not be the tallest or the prettiest sunflower but thats not important. i don't care about that. I'm happy just growing the way i do and i love myself for it.
nothing else grows where i do. but that makes me more beautiful in my own eyes. i don't need anybody to water me or take care of me. i don't need anybody to keep growing. because i can love and care for myself enough so nobody else ever has to.
and thats why wildflowers are so pretty, right? and im pretty too in my own way. i know i am so why would i listen to someone who doesn't think so? i don't let that kind of stuff get to me. because im good and i don't need anybody's approval to know that i am
hi im Apallo im 19 and i love myself to death. I've been through a lot and I've become tired of everything. and when everyone struggles with looking at themselves in the mirror, i see a beautiful sunflower thats weathered everything and i love him all the more 
