SARA MARiE

28 | Texas A&M ‘20 | UIW DPT ‘23 🌻

[SARA MARiE @saraberrett]

I've been waiting for this moment ever since I could remember. I'm so proud and excited to say that I'm an Aggie.👍🏼

[T @dfwtee_]

the problem is i really do love staying up until one billion o'clock. it just cant be helped.

[Kate😶‍🌫️ @katehqs]

I think one of the most heartfelt experiences in life is discovering that someone genuinely enjoys your presence. Not what you provide, Not your accomplishments. Just you, your thoughts, your energy, your existence.

[justina @justtjustinaa]

On a walk literally telling the trees “thank you” for the shade. 😭 I appreciate yall too much

[elsa @callmeMaharani]

in the end, the girl who treats a man like a debit card always seems to come out on top. Meanwhile, the girls asking for nothing but attention, effort, and consistency end up in therapy trying to heal from it.

[fresils @iFresils]

your death is way more guaranteed than your wedding day. so instead of looking for the love of your life, start living your life with love.

[cessi 🥤 @ceciiii07]

Women are lonely, too. But people don’t care because lonely women don’t murder, they go to grad school or get a rescue dog.

[Lyn🌺 @_ayandamay]

If a woman is buying her own flowers it means
1. She has money to buy flowers.

2. She is aware that when she wants something she has the capability to obtain it on her own.

Neither of those things are sad.

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

One thing I’ve realized is that when you're a lil too understanding, people become a lil too inconsiderate of you.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Seems like a good time to remind everyone that the United States Women's National Soccer Team has won 4 World Cups.

[𝑱𝒐𝒓𝒐🪼 @JoroJrn]

A baddie’s final form is truly not giving a fck if she’s single for the rest of her life.

[Ali🌹 @_omalichaa]

All roads lead back to celibacy, DND, gym, no roster, & being alone.

[♡yG♡🧚‍♀️ @angellailah_yG]

baby, just initiate. i'm overly willing to reciprocate. i just don't want to be the one making everything happen all the time. i love a man who initiates.

[Solyricon @Solyricon]

Dear future husband,
Today sucked. I miss you.

Love
Your future wife
P.S. come home already

[her🎀 @iam_dijah5]

Ngl girls who know their worth be lonely asf😭🤣🤣

[Lyn🌺 @_ayandamay]

Every girl should experience her own apartment, groceries in the fridge, candles lit, everything exactly how she wants it, and no man stressing her out. It really is a luxury experience.

[M.🐦‍🔥 @ayosznn]

may your “let me just try” work out beautifully.

[ً @artfuIchaos]

marrying someone very funny is on my list. I have to laugh, we have to laugh.

[Mi_ende🐙 @minemi_en]

Enjoying my singleness then remembering how in love i was with someone who gave up on me one random day like i meant nothing.

[mariana Z @mariana057]

Nothing refreshes my memory of what I need at the grocery store like coming home from the grocery store.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

I was curious once too.

I have never lived in Texas. But I worked remotely with Texans for years, and I spent so much time in the DFW area twenty years ago that it remains one of my favorite places on earth to visit.

So let me try to explain what I learned.

Start with this. In America, everyone is proud of their state. But Texas is different, and here is the tell. You never have to ask a Texan where they are from. They will tell you. Usually within the first two minutes.

Part of it is size. Texas is enormous. You can drive for a full day and never leave it. Part of it is the sheer variety. Real mountains in the west. Pine forests in the east. Beaches on the Gulf. Ranch land, oil country, desert, hill country, and some of the biggest cities in America. Almost every kind of terrain on the continent exists inside one state line.

But the real root is the history, and Texans know their history.

Texas was its own country. A fully independent republic with its own president, army, navy, and embassies. It fought Mexico for its independence and won it on the battlefield, then chose to join the United States as an equal. Six flags have flown over that land. Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederacy, and the United States. That was real history long before it was a theme park.

And here is the part outsiders miss most.

When the rest of the world pictures America, they are very often picturing Texas. The ranches. The boots. The oil. The swagger. The TV show Dallas ran for twenty years and exported that image to the entire planet. Texas became the shorthand for America itself.

But here is the thing I love most about Texans.

As much as they love Texas, they love America more.

It is, by almost any measure, the most patriotic state in the Union.

That is the answer. Texas pride is not arrogance. It is a country that remembers being a country, and chose this one anyway. 🦋