In a different time, a different place,
I'd be where you are today.
My heart is not where it belongs.
I feel so weak, yet told I'm strong.
Things never work out the way we plan--
Life has its own cruel demands.

*Ahem*

Ok, I will be posting here again soon... and hopefully more often. I have much residual emotion that must be cleansed.

Btw, anyone still here?

*crickets chirping*

That's what I thought. :P

I thought I was past this. These feelings of insecurity, the insatiable need for validation. Why do I still do this? I know I have self-worth… don’t I? Am I not my own being who does not need the world’s approval to live as I see fit? Can I not make my own decisions about what is righteous?

No, I cannot. For fear of rejection and for the ( Read more... )

Hi. I just turned 30 in July, and since then have been trying to figure out the best way to move my life in the direction in which I want it to go instead of letting everyone else pave my way ( Read more... )

It was midnight. My father gently shook me and said, “Hurry up, baby, and get your robe on. We have to go.” In a sleepy daze, I stumbled out of bed while he quickly put me in my robe and rushed me to the car. It was cold that night, but after I got in the car, I no longer felt the chill because fear seized my ten-year-old body. My mother was in the ( Read more... )

Whoever said that it is better to have loved and lost than to have not loved at all, obviously never loved.

“Love” is a word. “Love” is overused. Overexposed. It has become repetitious and mundane. The meaning of the word as it is spoken has been eroded into nothingness. Pleonasm has become commonplace, and no one realizes that this word, as so ( Read more... )

There will likely be several entries on a singular day. Just so you know, I wasn't being particularly creative or anything, but I wanted to put some of the things that I have already written in here. Some of you have likely already read them, so feel free to skip them if you so desire.