Don't look at me like I've lost my mind, like I'm some angry-ass girl losing her shit for no reason! I have every reason! My life is out there a million miles away, okay?
She was always up ahead, standing in front of me somehow. And there I was thinking that she was casting some sort of shadow that I had to get out from under. It was protection.
We grow up hearing that, don't we? That you don't have to be gifted or some kind of natural. If you just put in the time, the effort and the sweat, everything is possible. I believed that because I had to.