Two recent movies have changed Mansi Trivedi, told her it’s ‘okay to be a misfit, the one with the not-so-perfect jeans size and a whole lot of trailing behind GPA scores’:

This Christmas, two Santas taught me how to erase the word ‘differences’ from my life’s dictionary. They did not teach me how to change my perspective. They taught me how to have one. They deliriously deposited in my stocking the kind of looking glass where you don’t see sizes, colors, countries or IQ scores. The kinds we were all born with but somewhere along the way, they were broken, beaten or abandoned. Rules were adopted and imagination was crushed. History was warped and stories were buried.

This Christmas, they handed me one paintbrush and a blank canvas and the power to start over.