Category: My Fears
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I Grew Up Screaming for Silence to End
I grew up getting the silent treatment from my father, and I hate to admit it, but I’ve done it too. I used to go silent whenever I felt any sort of emotional turmoil. Spoiler alert: it never made me feel any better—just left me filled with pent-up resentment. To this day, I struggle to Read more
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The Cost of Becoming Someone New
There is a saying that one of my friends has been repeating: “Your new life is going to cost your old one.” This morning, while I was reading a new book, the author talked about how mountains are formed by two plates slamming into one another to create something massive. The two plates represent the Read more
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The Power of Redefining Greatness
When I was applying for college during my undergrad, there was a section of the application that asked for a personal statement/essay. The other day, I stumbled upon the file that I had hidden for years and read it for the first time in seven years. I wrote about how my biggest fear was time—the Read more
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what if?
What if we could have it all? And by all, I mean ALL. Every single thing you’ve ever dreamed of? What if we believe that all our dreams came true? Would it be as delusional as I sound? What if fear was a foreign concept? What if the only feelings that mattered were your own? Read more
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A Love Affair With Light
Did you know I have a tattoo of the sun behind my left ear? I got the tattoo when I was eighteen and madly in love with the sun. I remember that my obsession with the sun started when I was young. I even remember going on and on about it to my friend in Read more
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The Need to Feel Alive
“Anything to feel alive.” The past two years, I haven’t been able to get this out of my mind. I will do absolutely anything to feel alive… whether it be standing on the edge or swimming in the ocean in the middle of the night. Because, why the hell not? But I can’t help but Read more