Valeria Terrones

Chat observes. Chat gives me views and subs. Chat likes, comments, and shares. Your eyes are not like mine. They hit different. Which is deadass why you, chat, are the only ones to whom I can direct my question.

To be visible is to be real, and to be real is to be remembered.

How would people know I was still interesting if I didn’t give them something to perceive? How would I even know I was interesting if I had no audience to confirm it for me?

This is the great, unspoken truth of our age. If you do not post, you do not exist. If you are not constantly reinforcing your presence, your relevance, your desirability, then you are slipping, shrinking, becoming unimportant. It is not enough to simply be anymore, you must be perceived, and preferably, admired.

Never victimise yourself, no one will care, but your growth will stop — pain may earn you sympathy, but self-pity demands an audience you’ll never keep. Life rewards the ones who turn wounds into wisdom, not those who frame them for pity likes. The moment you cast yourself as the perpetual victim, you hand over the pen that writes your story, and w... See more

People who have been loved by their parents move differently in the world. You can often recognize them by their capacity to trust that things will be fine.