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It’s a waste of your life to try to be like someone else that your haters favor more than you because you’re allowing them to control who you become.

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Maybe she wasn’t just calling me out to be mean, maybe she was genuinely worried, maybe she actually had a valid perspective.

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I am just one of the many people born under difficult circumstances who wanted to do better and needed a little help getting onto my feet. Now that I am on them, I do my best not to forget what it felt like when I was not.

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I am not looking at you through blank eyes. I’m a hypocrite and I’m blaming you for how lousy I feel at this moment.

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Thinner is better. At least that’s what 3 year-old girls think.

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It hurts that people only ask you to join them in a social event out of pity. Even if you say yes, inside you will remember that you’re vulnerable; a disadvantaged bottom-feeder taking charity. You almost enjoy yourself, until your ‘friend’ hooks arms with their partner and leaves you (they are going somewhere else, to be intimate together – without you. They don’t think about you, or care).