Dear Good Girl
You felt so unworthy of anything good that you took anything you could get and called it enough…
Continue ReadingYou felt so unworthy of anything good that you took anything you could get and called it enough…
Continue ReadingDear Fourth Grade Me, It’s going to be okay. Trust me, it will. I know it seems as if the whole world is against you right now, but it’s not. Fourth grade wasn’t a great time for me, and you will remember it for a long time. I still remember those awful people and how […]
Continue ReadingDear Nilanjana Rai, Hi, hope you are doing fine. I believe you are either A) eating at the cafeteria alone — which is not because you don’t have any friends, just for the sake of not getting hurt — or B) you might just be worrying about what all you did to others and what […]
Continue ReadingDear Little Me, I know that you have been through difficult situations in life when you were younger. You’ve been humiliated, lost your self-confidence, and even started to think that you are nothing in this world. You are not that pretty as the girl in red lipstick, or as sexy as the girl in a […]
Continue ReadingYou’re young and you’re grinning on a Christmas morning, though you just lost your tooth a night ago. You have no idea if it’s going to grow back at all, but you show the loss off anyway. You tell your mom it doesn’t hurt anymore, doesn’t bleed any longer, and you can now have the […]
Continue ReadingDear Sixteen-Year-Old Me, Forgive yourself; the things that have happened are not your fault. I’m really sorry they hurt, but none of them come out on top. Although they have a knock on effect for the next few years, you get through it. I know that nobody has really told you that, but you will […]
Continue ReadingTo my 16-year-old self. Firstly, things DO get better. Stop panicking. You leave all those secondary school bullies behind you, you pass all your Art classes, and your family is proud of you at the end of it. All the stress and heartache, acrylic paint on your bedroom floor, constant graphite fingers, and sleepless nights are all worth it. Go […]
Continue ReadingWhen you wake up on a Monday morning, cranky and dreading yet another day of high school, just remember that I love you. Always have, always will. There was a time when looking at you in the mirror would disgust me. There were days when I wanted to take all your journals and flush them […]
Continue ReadingDear 12-year-old Sandra, I get it. Life sucks. You used to have breathing problems as a kid, then you outgrew them — yay! — then out of nowhere you have severe go-to-the-ER-right-now-and-call-the-priest asthma. Oh, and on top of that, you also randomly just started getting killer migraines, but you weren’t allowed to complain because your […]
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