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Walking into my house today, I saw my mom alongside her friend watching the 5 o’clock news. I quickly put down my things and proceeded into the kitchen to grab a cup of water when my mom interrupts the anchor woman and tells me “you need to be extremely careful. No more exercising at night or going to the bank at odd hours” (as a worried mother would say to her child). So, I stare at the…

You Really Hurt Me

Two strangers stare idly at one another while being introduced to each other by their friends. The strangers say hi, not knowing that this salutation is only one of millions and the easiest part of knowing each other. There is a fact, not well known to others that states that pupils dilate when seeing someone you love or find attractive, so that day, seeing someone I knew I was going to love…

One never realizes how naive and innocent their thoughts are when they are younger, until one grows up and comes to the understanding that the world is not what they thought it was or would be. A younger me, believed I would grow up to do exactly what it is I thought was my “right” path, which back then was to become a doctor in order to help others. It was an illogical concept for a child to…

The Daughter I am Not

“I had you, thinking you’d be just like me.” The words most daughters hear from their mothers. My mother for one, utters these exact words on a day to day basis and it ruins my psyche. The thought that I am not good enough for my mother haunts me day and night and I try over and over again to be just as she was and is.  I try to be the woman she wants and wanted me to be, However, I am not nor…

For a long time, humans have been forced to “coexist” with different species. During the infancy period (for lack of a better term) humans gave the only proof  needed to show that humans could not contently coexist with something or someone that was not like their kind. For the other species differences, the result was testing or death to prolong the lives of human beings. I was asked once, if…

Message In a Bottle

To whom shall ever find this message, I urge you to read it with an open mind. I do however, wish that whomever finds this message is not in distress but if you are, then I hope this message grants you complacency. I want to start off by saying that the world is no longer the same: People are no longer kind, money rules everything and amongst other things, if you are not well known, you do not…