People have always told me that I am an eighty-year-old woman stuck in a young girl’s body. I had my life planned out. I was never a person who didn’t know what my life looked like. I knew the niche categories my love fell into and knew the depths of my heart early in life. I evenContinue reading “The State I’m In”
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The Next Time I Am Not Seen
If we lived in a world where mental illnesses weren’t feared, the prison system would diminish. The next time I see a man tied down by twelve police officers for schizophrenia, will be the time I sit with him and call a psychiatrist. For police officers are no doctors although they believe so. The nextContinue reading “The Next Time I Am Not Seen”
Be Kind to You
Life scares me. More than I would like to admit. I never really notice how scared I am, until life hits me. When it’s too late to tell someone I love them one more time. When sickness overcomes health. When sadness turns into suicide. When protests turn into wars. Life changes within seconds, and allContinue reading “Be Kind to You”