thoughts, insights and rambles from a girl on a mission to change the world
As a true introvert, making friends is and always has been hard for me. From an early age, I have dealt with what I now know is social anxiety, but for many years I figured was just my own awkwardness. The first time I can remember noticing this feeling was around age 9. That year, […]
Like most people, I love the fresh slate a new year offers. The chance to start new, to set new intentions, to wipe away the struggles of the previous year. It’s like the first penmark on a fresh page of a brand new notebook. The beginning of something new excites me, and not knowing what’s […]
I haven’t sat down in quite some time just to write. Well, I guess that’s not fully true. I have sat down many times to write. I’ve typed and deleted and typed more and deleted more. Nothing quite sounding right. But I’ve been feeling something inside of me lately. Something that I want to put […]
We have for so long lived with the widely accepted idea that in order to survive in this cruel, unfair world, we must work to harden ourselves. That in order to persevere through the pain we will inevitably feel, we must find ways to build up our own armor, our own self-constructed shields. That we […]
Like glass, shattered. Like paper, torn. Like bones, fractured. This is the state of our Nation. A heart so broken, a soul so numb, children are now blamed for ruining the innocence their “leaders” were supposed to protect. A mind so closed and a vision so stagnant, this new generation has come of age in […]
