PrettyOddBird

Time may not heal everything, But it changes everything. 

What if instead of berating ourselves for every second of every misplaced step...? We said: I love you. I forgive you. You're perfect the way you are. Self-love begins within. We can't expect to contribute to our world, our communities, or our people, if we do not first accept ourselves completely. We determine the weight of our worth, the standard of self, and the price of perception. Practice being kind to yourself in an effort to love others naturally.

Part of infatuation is wanting to capture another person's mystery - to jar the firefly of her spirit - if it's infectious enough.

Real people. Real problems. Real potential.

Cracks in a diamond still sparkle.

I have to tell my story because it's my own, The only one I know.   And each time I try to convince myself I am a bird, or a coward, or a rhinestone, I fall short. I am afraid to fly, afraid to write, afraid to turn this corner And look myself in the mirror. To see this trinket bitch with red lipstick I don't even recognize. She's beautiful but she's cheap and she's EVERYTHING I learned not to be. Worst of all.. She's forgettable.

I smiled at myself in the mirror as I sang along to Karen O..... "they don't love you like I love you ❤️  Wait... they don't love you like I love you."

Late post.. A lot of crazy shit went down this year - Harambe (sorry, PETA), Muhammad Ali dying, Flynt's water crisis, Black Lives Matter taking off in momentum, and Donald Trump was elected President of the United Godforsaken States. That is still insane to hear aloud. Mulatto. Democrat. Female. I don't exactly fit the demographic Trump was aiming for but I was unprepared for the amount of people who landed in his camp. "Unprepared" could easily be replaced with "horrified/revolted/paralyzed with trepidation". The KKK were given a second wind (I nearly missed 'em in my lifetime! What a treat), the embodiment of the American woman was put back into her 80's secretary ensemble, and it was re-instilled in each of us that America is for everyone except Muslims and Mexicans. One thing that was particularly tough for me to digest was when facts stopped mattering. Rationality & logic quickly followed. 2016's current president-elect literally