I Am Living In My Own World

Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

Tia Ella Gliata
3 min readOct 8, 2020
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JOMO; Joy-of-Missing-Out

I have mastered it for as long as I can remember. When I saw the release of The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck book, I thought to myself, “I could’ve written the fucking book.”

I don’t know how it started but I have always lived my life according to my own definition. When I was a kid, I came to realize that a lot of my friends wanted to be a doctor. I didn’t and I didn’t care. I never felt like I had to want to be a doctor also just like them.

I Want What I Want, Regardless

I have always found it very clear about what I wanted. What school I wanted to go to, what extracurricular I wanted to pursue, what new lessons I wanted to learn, what I wanted to do in my free time, and how I wanted to look. I just always have strong instincts I suppose and I decided all for myself regardless if people were doing the same thing or not.

It never occurred to me to look at other people and think “Oh maybe I should do that too”. I couldn’t really figure out why. It wasn’t that I didn’t care. It was just a feeling of “Oh she was doing that. Good for her.” It doesn’t really have anything to do with me what other people do. If I didn’t want it or didn’t want to do it, I was good. I…

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Tia Ella Gliata
Tia Ella Gliata

Written by Tia Ella Gliata

Pouring my heart out. Writing as self-therapy. Healthy lifestyle, exploring, & building a community I’ll devote my life to. Cheerio!

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