from a girl who has been eaten alive to you.
I always felt like I’ve been eaten alive for my whole life. Because having a vagina since birth is the only close experience that you can describe it nicely.
Growing up was not easy on me; I was not a cutesy dream girl that you can dress up and do her hair however you wish, or at least you weren’t looking at her in that way because she was a bit chubby.
I aged with the grandmas and aunties around me talking about how I did not look like a girl with that big nose and just a thin line called lips up on in chin.
So I never made peace with mirrors and cameras till I ran away from every bit of it.
I was 8 when I got called fat nearly every time in all family gatherings throughout the whole year. So I would find myself in front of the mirror doing dumb stuff to lose weight, not knowing how I could hurt myself with that shit in a very bad way. And every time someone saw me making an effort, even if it affected me zero truly, they were always saying,
“Good job, you will look like a girl now, maybe.”
And maybe it was the callings through my head mirroring them, or it was just reality for me, but I never felt like a girl until the age of eighteen.
In middle school everyone was in a relationship like it was meant to be, and I was the “girl” who was not interested at all because no one was seeing me.
So school doubled this into whatever was already happening also at home, but they were always saying they’re joking because they love me.
But I knew it was not true at all.
No, how could you love someone and be so cruel to them all the time? They never liked me. Nobody does.
So for me the only solution was shutting myself from everything and becoming the absurd existence that everyone judges.
I dyed my hair and cut it. Did it again and again to find the true me. Bought clothes for nothing, only to wear them once and watch them turn into my pajamas and not be able to close my wardrobe because they would not fit in.
I started to studying architecture because I didn’t know what I wanted from life, or I was wishing for everything, so that was maybe a way to find out. But it turns out it was the best choice I could have ever made, even though now I’m not even considering being an architect who practices it.
And through all those years, I still feel like someone is biting my flesh fresh and chewing it, because that is a journey that never really ends.
Now I know who I am, and despite all the scars from being eaten alive still showing around me, I love it that way; I still cut my hair and dye it into whatever color I want, still dress like a “homeless” in the way my dad really despises, and use the mirror only when I wake up and go to bed while I brush my teeth, and I just take random pictures of myself whenever my front camera pops up out of nowhere in a bit.
I’m the girl who’s been eaten alive and still, no, I will never truly forgive whatever happened to me. But I know these are the signals that push me to be better, and even the best, from anyone and anything.












