Finding my path

It’s okay to miss them

It’s okay to miss what you had

It’s okay to wish it didn’t happen that way

It’s okay to to be upset about how they treated you

Ita okay to be upset about it being over

It’s okay to be angry about how they treated you

It’s okay to have feelings about the situation and even about them still.

It’s okay to cry about it even though it’s over, or cry about it even because it’s over.

You can cry, you can get mad, you can express your emotions.

It’s okay.

But it’s not okay to go back to them. It’s not okay to apologize to them for how they treated you. It’s not okay to hurt other people because of how they hurt you. And it’s not okay to hurt yourself.

Please please please I know that you might still be hurting from them and from what they did and becuase it’s over, but the hurt won’t last forever. You’ll heal and you’ll be better.

They don’t deserve you.

You deserve better. You deserve good things. You deserve healthy love and healthy friendships and healthy activities.

List of names and why they kick ass  

Emma González (born 1999) - American activist and advocate for gun control. Surviour from the Stoneman Douglas High Shcool shooting in Parkland, Florida. 

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Gonz%C3%A1lez

Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) - Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. 

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born 1954) - American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges

Greta Thunberg (born 2003) - Swedish schoolgirl who, at age 15, began protesting about the need for immediate action to combat climate change outside the Swedish parliament and has since become an outspoken climate activist.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg

Amariyanna “Mari” Copeny (born 2007) - In 2016 Flint resident Amariyanna “Mari” Copeny, aged 8, wrote President Obama to bring to his attention the public health crisis caused the Flint Water crisis. The month after receiving her letter, the president responded with one of his own, thanking Mari for her activism and telling her he’d visit Flint. Their meeting went viral, and seven months later, President Obama authorized $100 million to repair Flint’s water system. 

To date, she and the education nonprofit Pack Your Back have handed out more than 700,000 water bottles to local families.

sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_activism

https://www.oprahmag.com/life/a25383285/mari-copeny-barack-obama-flint-water-crisis/

Autumn Peltier (born 2004) - Anishinaabe-kwe and a member of the Wikwemikong First Nation and an internationally recognized advocate for clean water. She is a water protector and has been called a “water warrior”. Peltier addressed world leaders at the UN General Assembly on the issue of water protection at the age of thirteen in 2018.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_Peltier

Afreen Khan (born 2000) - a young girl who is part of a generation of Indian women fighting rape and sexual harassment. Along with other young rape survivors, Afreen has formed a vigilante group called The Red Brigade. Together, they march along the streets in their red and black uniform, drag young men out of their homes and publically humiliate them for harassing women.

They also teach self-defense to the girls of their community and organize protests.

source: https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeera-selects/2017/07/girls-pushing-boundaries-india-mozambique-morocco-170703062812493.html

Sophie Cruz (born 2010) - American activist. Her parents are undocumented immigrants from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Cruz’s activism is geared toward ensuring the continuance of the DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) program, which would allow her parents to remain in the United States legally.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Cruz

The Black Student Union of Charlottesville High School - Led a #RacialJusticeWalkout on March the 25th 2019 demanding a number of policies to promote equity in city schools.

source: https://www.nbc29.com/story/40188748/chs-black-student-union-to-lead-walkout-for-racial-justice

Naomi Wadler (born 2007) - American student and activist attending George Mason Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia. She has held speeches advocating for victims of gun violence in the United States, especially black female victims, most notably at the anti-gun protest March for Our Lives.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wadler

Riley Keough (born 1989) pictured with two young unidentifiable protestors at Dakota Access Pipeline Protest 2016 

source: http://www.justjared.com/photo-gallery/3729396/riley-keough-protests-dakota-access-pipeline-01/

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It is a snack cupboard so overwhelmingly full that it removes the agency of choice from the snackee, and instead whatever falls out of it first, that is their snack. A must have for the indecisive.

Test run:

This is my snack now.