I remember often asking about my mother. Along with all of my other uncertainties, there was the lingering question of why I could never see her. I always got the same answer, “You’re too young to understand, Luke.”
Question the story you have about yourself which runs on repeat, the story which dictates your behavior. Self-awareness is power.
I’d like to think that as much as we all lie, deceive and discontinue, what we want deep down is still to tell the truth.
You’ll be knowledgeable on several topics. You’ll think and see the world differently. You’ll be able to make more connections between different topics.
“Kim Kardashian’s Selfish. Yeah, I said it. You actually get some good tips on taking selfies (stop judging, I know you take them).” – Ryan
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” —Hermann Hesse
“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” — Roseanne Barr
My question to you is a plain one: Do you think after reading the feedback, what you wrote was wrong in the sense that it took one experience with one person from one culture and made a generalization about an entire culture based on that?
There was no more trying to pretend that this wasn’t a serious problem. No matter how much I denied the possibility of what was going on, no matter how much I wanted to wake up as if this were all some sort of a bad dream, I kept shrinking, smaller and smaller.
You’re trapped on a lifeboat that can only hold two people. The lifeboat currently holds you, Oprah and Meryl Streep. Which other person do you save besides yourself?
Pain is relative, and right now, a desperate desire to love and be loved is the pain that’s taking up the most amount of space in your body.
When you call yourself a Boss Ass Bitch, you mean it. You’re not embarrassed. You’re not ridiculous. You know you’re a boss. Everyone else better recognize.
In one sudden moment, I realized I’d lost something precious without anticipating it: complete independence.
