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The Scars Of Fitting In

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A girl who hid under layers of makeup, for fear of her colour being mocked. A young man ridiculed for acting pansy, who laughed at himself to fit in. The artist who gave up his passion for singing, to sit at the cash counter of his Father's mithai store. The quiet simmering spouse in a marriage, dragging it along. The ambitious architect mother, who gave it up all; to fit in the domestic mould. The wannabe biologist who had to live with dead crunching numbers every day. We have heard such stories, read about them, and few of us have experienced it. That brings forth a point why do we do it? Not everywhere you fit in, is where you belong. Quite often, people force themselves to fit in where they  do not belong. Trying to fit in your square peg in a circle.  A majority of us live all through our lives doing things, we are reasonably good at, not necessarily we would like to do or want to do or are passionate about.Occasionally, you pull on a relationship (including non-romantic ones)