Now that I have graduated high school and I am moving on to a new chapter in my life, I have realized that I no longer have the self-imposed pressure of maintaining a reputation I created for myself. I’ve talked about it before and now just like that, with the turn of a tassel, I feel free.
The chains of wanting to be the perfect version of myself that I thought everyone saw me as, have broken. While I still have an immense weight of other nonsensical things on my shoulders, the constant need to be the person I think my peers and my teachers and my advisors want me to be is gone. Which leads me into an exciting place: I can say whatever I want. Not idiotically of course, but I have a new opportunity to allow myself to be the person I am, always have been and am becoming without needing to fit a mold that doesn’t suit me.
So, I will be doing just that. This website was always a safe place for me to land when the noise in my head got too loud, but now I think I actually believe it.