Love Letters to the Girls Who Are Too Hard on Themselves
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Love Letters to the Girls Who Are Too Hard on Themselves
She asks questions just because she wants to answer them. What a selfish weirdo. She projects fantasies onto men she barely knows at all. What a desperate, naive little girl. She writes all of this out for strangers on the internet to read. She’s over-sharing for attention! I feel special in my depravity but every other feeling of “special” is a... See more
on being special
Before I worked with the therapist, I never really heard from anyone that I am valuable just the way I am, just because I exist. I probably heard something like that in spiritual circles and thought: ‘yeah, yeah, whatever’. It never felt true, especially in the world of capitalism, academia, relentless competition in which we have to prove our
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