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,
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ReplyDeleteThe Thor gif - cracking up over here. I had a ton of fun doing this month's questions! I mean, I usually have fun doing BP, but these ones somehow brought out some things I hadn't contemplated yet. Which is always awesome, you know.
ReplyDeleteI used my secondary protagonist (who's either the villain, or just an anti-hero, depending on how you look at it.)
Thanks again for doing this with Cait every month!
- R @ Wordsmithing and Worldbuilding
http://rlhendrian.blogspot.com/2015/09/beautiful-people-september-edition-meet.html
Is there going to be an October edition?
ReplyDeleteYep! It's a little late, but it'll be out on the tenth! It's an introduce-us-to-your-book type thing. :)
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