Update 2/2/19
Wow, iâm about to write something that doesnât usually sound like it would be from me, but i promise you thereâs a happy ending. First off, let start off by saying wow, 2018 really was a year just full of hurt and a lot of ups and downs. From beginning to end, it was a year that would have affected me for the rest of my life. In the beginning of it, i found myself in a place where i know i shouldnât have been. waking up everyday thinking âokay, whatâs next?â my grades were falling behind due to my mental state, i started smoking and doing a lot more drugs, i would be putting myself out there for people who would be so quick to throw me away. I just wasnât in the right state of mind. i often found myself saying âfuck loveâ because it just never seemed to work out for me. I threw away the idea that one person would be there for me forever. I just really couldnât believe that someone out there could ever love me. not on some self deprecating shit, but I came with too much baggage. I had too many problems within me that would project into any relationship i got into. I just wasnât capable of loving another human being properly and healthily, when i couldnât even love myself. i tried dating. i found someone. we talked for awhile and she was good to me. In the end something happened and we just werenât as good as we thought we were for each other. we broke that off and after that I found myself shutting out people who wanted to get to know me. i thought that if i couldnât even get this one person to stay with me for a short amount of time, who would want me forever?
One thing i always took pride in was the fact that i never give up. If i have a goal that i want to reach i will do anything to get to that goal. The one thing i wanted to do was get better. It was to finally find myself and focus on me. it was a weird feeling bc i havenât done that in over 6-7 years. I was finding out new things about myself as well. I found out that i like to be alone in nature while thinking to myself, i found out that i prefer my coffee black sometimes, i found out that the way i think is very logical. It was weird at first, thinking to myself am i doing this just bc or is this me? and it was me! it was like getting to know an entirely different person, or a distant best friend you havenât seen in awhile. i think itâs the first time in awhile i actually felt comfortable being me. I continued trying to better my ways, practice healthy coping mechanisms, and being at ease with the fact that change doesnât happen over night. gradually, i found myself becoming happier and happier. until one day, a situation happened in which i lost a few people that i thought i was close to. Ngl, i retracted. i took ten steps back from where i was and stood there wondering how? why? and furthermore what did i do? i pondered this for so long, asked multiple friends âam i a bad person?â or âwhat are my flaws? can you tell me so i can improve on them?â just constantly asking questions when the answer was infront of me all along. a word that wasnât in my vocabulary, and that was acceptance. accepting that sometimes you donât need an explanation, you donât need closure, and you donât need to dwell. sometimes people like to think thereâs a certain way to go about things, that everyone should follow, but thatâs not correct. everyone is different. So with that i accepted that this is my life. I may not see what they see but thatâs what they see so iâll accept that, process it, learn from it, and apply to my life. i think once i reached that point, i thought that âIâm finally more than okay, iâm actually improving and progressing so much.â
fast forward to present day. i think this is the happiest iâve ever been on a day to day basis. I look back on who i was 3, 2, and even 1 year ago and iâm like damn, iâve come a long way. i donât overthink things like i used to, i have an actual schedule rather than being unorganized, and most importantly i feel like i actually have my life together. i have a loving family who supports me and are there for me, a mom that loves me with all her heart and a btoeher who is my best friend. i have amazing friends who have stuck with me no matter what had happened, even tho i was never my best self they pushed me and showed me that the love you feel with your significant other or your family isnât the only love out there. Iâve struggled for many years to even see myself this happy, there were quite a few times i didnât want to know if i was going to make it this far, but i did it. And itâs not over just yet, but as of now this is life. Iâm happy, iâm loved, and iâm doing just fine.










