don’t let the things that haven’t worked out convince you that nothing ever will. you have no idea what your life is still capable of becoming. I know what it feels like to want certain things and I know how much it can hurt to watch them slip away - especially when you’ve given everything you have to make them happen. but I hope you keep going. I hope you never let what happened become the only thing you believe can happen.
We are currently living in a timeline where women can be thrown in jail for having an abortion, but seven men who gang rape a woman only have to write an essay to “think about what they did”.