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note to self: i’ll be there for you, always

written june 6, 2021. Photo by Kristine Cinate on Unsplash I have always looked for myself in other people. I think the idea was that they would somehow hold the pieces of me that I felt were missing. That maybe, if I wrapped my identity up in theirs enough, we would somehow make a whole person. It's not healthy to live like this, but I did it anyway — burning through relationships and searching for something I couldn't quite name. It was never enough, not to be myself, but it was never enough to latch my identity to other people, either. I got close, several times — I thought I had reached the pinnacle of self discovery. I thought I had completed myself. But in the end, relying on other people to help build yourself is never a viable way to do things. It's only recently that I've started to become comfortable with the idea of being enough, as I am, on my own. Several years ago, in this same position, I would have searched for another person to attach my identity onto,

August 2014: Recap

A Novel Idea: The Petrichor Cast — (Almost) Every Single One of Them

A Novel Idea: Behind the Scenes

A Novel Idea: Cobie

A Novel Idea: Astrid + Completing a Novel in 80 Days

you taught me the courage of stars

Beautiful People: Blade

Beautiful People - August Edition

A Novel Idea: All About the Writing Process

A Novel Idea: Decker & Beau