I decided I want to dissect the reasons for my emotional pain and the reasons why those reasons exist as causes of pain instead of neutral personality features. I’ll process it in the simplest terms first ( Read more... )

This is by far the greatest fucking description of myself I've ever read. I had to share it with the world ( Read more... )

I'm sitting around, waiting to finally get out of here and go to New York. I don't even really want to be there, but I do want to leave Phoenix. In an ideal world, I could pack up my car, pick a random place, and leave for good. Go to a place where I don't know anyone and no one knows me. Leave with absolutely no set return date. Change my name and ( Read more... )

I rejoice in being different. After spending most of my youth buried in self-loathing, I’ve come to embrace myself and notice all the elements of who I am that I like. I’m still not exactly who I want to be, but that’s all right because I’m young enough to have time. I still acknowledge my flaws and have moments where I focus exclusively on those ( Read more... )

In anticipation of high school graduation and my eighteenth birthday all taking place within the next two weeks or so, I figure I should make it clear to myself who and what I want to be. I’ve decided to live until further notice, but now I have to decide how I’m going to do it. Most people my age never stop to consider who they want to be and why ( Read more... )

I'm sure you've all heard, at one point or another, some type of motivational lecture given by a celebrity or other public figure on the importance of loving yourself. They always emphasize that loving yourself is not the same thing as being arrogant or an egomaniac, which I think is true -- it's just a fine line separating the two ( Read more... )