Jasmine Nicole

I consider myself to be generally positive. I’m goofy, I smile and laugh a lot, and I tend to keep things on the light side. I naturally exude positive energy as much as possible and it’s nothing I’m ashamed of as it’s just me being me. So people assume that I’m not serious, or immature. They assume that I don’t experience negative feelings, or don’t get tired or fed up with life.

This obviously isn’t true because often times I’m drowning in things that would knock me down if I let them. Sometimes I fake it or I ignore it and I keep a smile on my face and a spring in my step so that I don’t give those negative things power over me. But when people see that all the time, they misconstrue it as naivety or obliviousness. People think I have my head in the clouds and don’t take me as seriously as they would someone else.

If I’m honest, it bothers me a lot. I notice when people feel this way about me by the way they treat me or how they don’t treat me. But I know that living my life this way is good for me and I have to remember that I can’t get too caught up in the way that people perceive me.