thoughts, insights and rambles from a girl on a mission to change the world
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 […]
“Happiness” I tell myself, “is a choice… YOU can make that choice, Evan. The power lies within yourself.” I repeat this over and over in my head, cocooning myself in blankets, holding onto them so tightly that my knuckles start to turn white. Tears streaming uncontrollably. Unable to shake the urge to run at lightening […]
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 […]
T O B E C O M E M O R E C O N F I D A N T I N S P E A K I NG M Y M I N D If I had to choose my most important goal for 2018, that is it. Like most introverts, I often […]
2017 has been, simultaneously, one of the best and worst years of my life. I have not had many words this year to describe all of my many feelings. While I have continued to write and share, there are so many more thoughts bottled up, compiling in my head, that I cannot seem to get […]
Each time she fell back into that hole, it seemed to get just a little bit darker. Each time, feeling as though more and more of herself was being taken away. And just as she learned how to fight off the debilitating darkness, just as she began to see the light again, the darkness would […]
You are not lost, my dear. You are simply seeking your next adventure. Don’t let this world convince you otherwise. You were not made to know of everything you are or of everything you’re meant to do or of everywhere you’re meant to go. Instead, this life is a journey of discovery, and when the […]
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 […]
Evan Petschke 