Ivana Akotowaa Ofori - To Be lyrics

Sometimes it takes years to learn how to be comfortable in your own skin to realise that this body is the same flesh you will live and die in. Not your parents, not your siblings, not your friends, not your boo. Just you. Nobody has to live with yourself as much as you do. Who else will keep you company in solitude? You need to learn… But sometimes, it takes years. It takes years to learn how to be comfortable in your own skin. Because it's easy to think that other people's approval will win us self-acceptance. We forget we do not require others to be our natural best. Sometimes, it takes years because we live in fear. when there is nothing to be afraid of, we choose to fear ourselves Forgetting the fact that we are the one person we cannot run away from. Believe me, I tried Putting distance between me, myself and I. I always caught up to me and couldn't understand why myself, so I tried to find an answer in the mirror of another person's eye. They tried to teach me who I was But I guess I was a bad pupil, Because I thought that I lacked a lot; I thought that I lacked a dot. Yet in solitude I found what was lost. Solitude is an art Improperly cultivated in a world that is increasingly leaning towards extroversion. Solitude teaches you that because you are always alone, you are never alone. You know how to be by yourself. You know how to be without. You know how to be within yourself You know how to be. Sometimes, comfort in your own skin means being okay with walking alone. At other times, it means not freaking out just because you believe that people don't like you; It is being okay with liking yourself. And sometimes, being comfortable in your skin means realizing you are alone because other people don't know how... to be.