I don’t want my daughter to be like me. I want her to speak up sooner. Walk away faster. Trust herself deeper. Apologize less. Take up more space. Ask bigger questions. Dream louder. And if that means she becomes everything I wasnt… GOOD!
I was on the bus heading home after work, exhausted and staring out the window. Some guy sitting across from me kept looking over until he finally said, “SMILE, LIFE CAN’T BE THAT BAD”
I looked him dead in the eye and said “I’m on my way back from identifying my fiancé’s and sister’s body which is how I found out they were having an affair”
His face drained instantly, and he started apologizing over and over, saying he was “just trying to cheer me up.” At the next stop, he got off even though it clearly wasn’t where he meant to stop.
None of it was true. But it annoys me when people think they have the right to dictate how people are feeling and what expressions they make, especially when they don't know what is going on in their lives.
I’ve had women, including my own patients, tell me the only time they’ve ever truly rested was when they were too sick to function, injured, or hospitalized.
Because that’s the only time the world stops demanding things from them or the only time they feel empowered to say no.
If the only way a woman is “allowed” to rest is by being unwell…what kind of world are we living in?
james baldwin was so right when he said you think you’re alone and then you pick up a book and realise someone else has felt the same way as you and managed to find a language for it. the realest shit
so ur telling me trump, the sitting president of the usa, threatened the pope, the pope said, "check urself before you wreck yourself", and in retaliation trump ai imaged itself as Jesus...? And THEN Iran said, "Mr. pope and co. that's fucked up. not even we would do that bc Jesus is holy. sorry u have 2 deal with this".
this is the timeline i live in. THIS IS THE TIMELINE I LIVE IN?!
I want the kind of money that lets me show up for my people. Even if I can’t fix everything, i want to at least soften the moment. To send food. To send transport fare. To send ice-cream money on a hard day.
I’m tired of only saying “sorry.”