Category: Journal Entries

  • Contemplations Over the Opera

    There is no torture quite like a fifteen hour plane ride. You’re trapped in the smallest of spaces, not even an inch away from a stranger, sitting in your own sweat, breathing the same used air for hours. Sure, going to a new destination is exciting, but actually getting there is awful. My flight didn’t Read more

  • Honesty is Not Weakness

    Sometimes, I look down at my wrists, and I notice how small they are. They’re so small that I can wrap my thumb and pointer finger around them, making them touch with ease. Sometimes, like when I was cooking dinner this evening, I look down at my tiny little wrists, and I wonder how a Read more

  • Standards (and not the academic kind)

    I had therapy last Monday, a fact I don’t think any person should be afraid to admit. Actually, I think it should be normal to say, “Oh, yes, I go to therapy! I have things I need to sort out, and I see a professional for that.” I started seeing her last year after the Read more

  • Two Suitcases = My Life

    Last night, I had a break down, or as my friend and I enjoy calling them, a ‘menty b.’ It’s our fun little way of making a not-so-enjoyable experience a bit comedic, because that’s what we girls do, right? We try to laugh off the unpleasant parts of life, the ones where *gasp*, it’s revealed Read more