Two Face

If you aren’t honest with yourself, how can you expect to be honest with others? For years you’ve looked in the mirror while wearing glasses with a certain prescription called “selective sight.” And you looked at who you wanted to be, a “slightly” more ideal version of who you actually are, and that’s who you decided…

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We Built a Shelter: My Story

The following is an introduction to a short story I wrote about processing the last few years of my life to help make sense of where I am now. If you’d like to skip straight to the story, start below the horizontal line. Enjoy! I tried my best to be as realistic as possible about…

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My Bed Against the Wall

I’ve always been really sensitive to the way places are designed and how they make me feel. It was only natural then that this last time I moved I began looking into feng shui. “Maybe there’s something to it,” I thought, with little knowledge of what feng shui is, other than the fact that it’s…

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I’m Sorry I Ran

Sometimes I run away from you when you’re hurting, but it’s not because I don’t care. It’s because I’m scared. I have this way of loading my backpack where I put my books in the bottom and then I add your cinder blocks on top and before I know it I’ve walked 5 miles but…

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A Letter Writing Challenge

In high school I would get these terrible headaches and stomach pains that seemed to have no trigger. It turned out that they were a result of having pent up emotion that was taking a toll on my body. As a result, I learned that I needed to physically process emotions (particularly negative emotions) in…

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I Trusted You

I don’t understand why I’m like this. I thought I made peace with this weakness a long time ago, but here we are again. I wish I could have held myself back from caring about your wellbeing. I wish I didn’t give you so many benefits when there were so many doubts. If I could…

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The End is Not Near

I love you, I do Your life has value. Whether you believe it or you don’t, Whether you will see it or you won’t, The truth is clear to me that I love you.   And I know that this world hurts. The pain– it sears and burns. And you don’t see any light, Especially…

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The Overthinker

I have a big red target, it sits right on my forehead. It torments me at night, especially when I should be going to bed. It’s two o’clock in the morning, but the target’s on my mind. Literally– it sits right in front of my brain so it’s on my mind all the time. It’s…

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