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Should I feel like a lost cause because I’m not famous enough to have ‘a voice’?
6 years ago · 1 · Stress, +7
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As I sit here at 22 years old, I eventually find the time between working, spending with my boyfriend (who of which i see once a month due to long distance) or asleep (because everything is easier when you're asleep... right), to watch ‘Simply Complicated.’ For those who don’t know, this is the documentary in which Demi Lovato talks about here struggles from childhood into her life now. So right now I sit here and respect and appreciate the fact she has a voice and now she is finally speaking as her true and authentic sober self, but hate the fact that I can never see a version of myself in which I can say I am 6 years sober and ready to fight my struggles with my heart, mind, body and soul. Granted, I never had to deal with the burdens that come with the being a child star and having to deal with the ongoing pressures of the press and social media and the fact of becoming a teenage role model over night… but does that make my own struggles less important because I was bought up in a middle class background within the depths of UK?
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Everyone's struggles have the same value, some of us are just luckier and are given a chance to have a "voice" or a platform to talk about it. And some of us are not so lucky and have no other option but to seek out people we have never met and ask for their help. And just because you haven't had the same struggles she has doesn't mean you shouldn't have a voice either. Everyone deserves an opportunity to have a voice, just some of us have an easier road to getting out to everyone. You deserve an opportunity just as much as she did
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