Awareness isn't vanity, and vanity isn't awareness

I guess I've reached a point where I'm comfortable with myself.

I find the things that people say about me are real.

I no longer cringe hearing my own recorded voice.

I find myself to be damn pretty without feeling the guilt of vanity.

I've settled at the fact that I have a calming effect on people.

It isn't arrogance. It's like I embody everything that I believe in, like I'm confident that anything I say will materialize, that what people will see is what they will surely get.

Being aware is not flaunting yourself or flaunting assets what don't exist just to compensate. Being aware is knowing. It's faith. It is confidence. It is also going forward without turning back in regret or in egotistic nostalgia.