THOUGHTS:

You leave a group of people and even though you were surrounded you’ve never felt more isolated

it’s stupid a stupid cliche, but it's true

You feel misunderstood but what can you do. They don't particularly want to understand you.

They loathe you but not for any reas...

It's almost like I'm in a pit of anxiety and I don't know if this new self is the self that I am or if it's keeping me from being what I actually am

and I keep hoping that I'll hit this rock bottom moment and it'll be the one that I'll look back on in videos a...

"I feel like i was so much wiser when i was 17, two shades, didn't sit in the space between"

A year ago life was a lot simpler, lighter, everything seemed to not have as much weight. Call it naivete but with age naivete is slowly left behind.

Knowledge wielded...

I wore an eyepatch. Not in a cool “Pirates of the Caribbean” kind of way, more of a “Yes...I have a lazy eye” kind of way. The day I got my eyepatch was the worst of my whole, entire life. Ok, my whole, entire life was only four years, but still. My eye doctor informed...

High school often requires the most mundane, mind-numbing books. So, hearing of a book about a town setting people on fire was pleasantly unsettling. My eleventh grade teacher distributed The Crucible and, intrigued by this society of witches and magic, I devoured the...

Though my stubborn younger self would argue, my big brother has had the biggest impact on me. I was always the “gifted academic,” but Max taught me to live with purpose: to leave my desk and make a difference. That’s really the important lesson: learn from connections...

I once shucked corn with my feet in front of 200 middle schoolers. One day, I made the misadvised decision to become a leader for middle schoolers. I approached the leadership position with naivete, which was met with more life-lessons than 17 years of education could...

I am a master of deception, a con man, a deceiver. Not on purpose, of course.

Infinite universes exist for and about each person, we all create our own reality both for ourselves and for others. Undoubtedly, I represent a different image in the realities of everyone I m...

not enough or too much. out of place. unloved. unworthy. we've all felt it. sometimes all of it becomes too overwhelming. it's this feeling of: i want to give up so bad but i don't have time. i don't have time to fall apart. i don't have reason enough to fall apart. I'...