ALL MY LIFE, I HAVE MET PEOPLE WHO DECIDED AND SWORE THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHO I AM, EVEN MORE THAN ME-DANIEL WILSON. (PHOTO).

 

UNAPOLOGETICALLY YOURS…

All my life, I have met people who decided and swore they knew exactly who I am, even more than me. 

To some, I am kind, generous, humble, dependable.

To others, I am arrogant, wicked, stubborn, complicated.

Some call me honest… others swear I am a scam.

One day I’m a hero, another day I’m a villain.

A blessing to some, a problem to others.

A saviour in one story, a thief in another

To a few, I’m the best thing that ever happened to them;

To others, I’m their biggest mistake.

And maybe they are all right.

And maybe they are all wrong.

Because every one of those names

Is a small slice of me,

Yet none of them was ever truly me.

There were times I myself almost believed these versions of me—

Times I looked at myself through the fog of their lenses,

Trying to recognize me.

But growing older has taught me something simple:

Only me knows the real me.

Only I carry my full story.

I wear many faces for the many

But only me know the face underneath.

So today, while I honour every version of me they created—

The praise, the insults, the confusion, the contradictions—

I return to myself with clarity.

I stand here in the fullness

Of my own becoming—

Not the story they tell,

Not the myth they made,

But the truth I carry within.

This is me.

Unfiltered, unborrowed, unbent.

Take me as you see me. 

I am Unapologetically Yours—

Today, tomorrow,

And always.

Daniel Wilson