thoughts, insights and rambles from a girl on a mission to change the world
I felt the seasons start to change today. From warm to cold, from sun to clouds. I stepped outside to find leaves crunched beneath my feet. And I thought, how magnificent it is that the world knows just when to go from blue to grey, from green to orange. And that despite our human efforts […]
When you find yourself in a place of light, know that you are allowed to be there, to feel happiness. But don’t forget to cherish that feeling and to bottle it up for when darkness hits. Because light and dark come and go, in their own beauty, with their own purpose. Each teaching us to […]
It’s making a pact with their friends before going out at night, promising you’ll stick together, in fear that a lone female in a bar late at night might get taken advantage of. It’s shifting your gaze to stare at the ground while walking past a group of men on the street, in fear of […]
I was always the kid who, when asked the question “what do you want to be when you grow up?”, could never reply with just one answer. A flight attendant. A hair dresser. A foot doctor. A singer. A poet. A songwriter. An author. A teacher. A journalist. The president. The list went on and […]
Is there meant to be more to life than this? I’ve always burdened myself with the thought that my purpose should be to serve others… But each day a new challenge appears, a new endeavor fails, and the problems consume me. I keep looking at the bigger picture thinking, somewhere here I’ll make a difference. […]
The weight of the world was never meant to be carried on your shoulders alone. Even though you are strong enough to weather its toughest storms, this burden is to be shared. Because even the strongest of us will falter at times and in our failures, learn that we too need to be carried. And […]
My wish, for you… that you may experience the indescribable beauty that is pure happiness. The debilitating kind of happiness that stops you in your tracks and sends a shiver up your spine and makes all the pain and sadness and fear dissapear if only for a fleeting moment.
White skin Black skin Yellow skin Is there a difference? Brown eyes Blue eyes Green eyes Does one count for more than the other? Jewish Christian Muslim Who decided we could choose which is dominant? Male Female Transgender Is one given the right to judge? Gay Straight Bisexual When was one made more powerful than […]
In the age of college students building billion-dollar corporations from their dorm rooms, we have normalized this stigma that achieving magnificent success at a young age is what we all should work toward — and those that do achieve such success should be praised and idealized. We live in a society where we are at once expected to be […]
Three years ago today you left us. It was way too soon. You were forced out of our lives when none of us were the least bit ready. I’ll remember that day, that feeling, those words forever. “Abby died” my dad said. And in that moment, I thought my heart had been ripped out from […]
Evan Petschke 