#thepersonal

In a lot of ways, this is my best summer ever.

Ted’s really cool. He’s teaching me woodworking. I’ve been making sculptures.

He says most kids don’t have patience for it, because it takes so much sanding and chiseling to wear away what’s not wanted.

He says life is like that. If you want to be art, you gotta let life wear away and chisel all that gets in the way of your true form.

I think about…

I came here to talk about my feelings. I wanted to write a haiku, but I can’t contain you in a simple 5-7-5.

'If you think about it time isn’t linear. Every moment that has ever happened or will ever happen is happening right now. We just choose to live in this moment to create some illusion of continuity. So really we have already died and we have also not been born.'

I know I haven't posted anything in a while. Life has been sooo busy and the time that I do spend on tumblr is on the iPhone app (which I don't find it very savvy for more deep personal blogging, so I've been neglecting you all. Sorry). 

There is sooo much I want to reflect on, but it's been a while since I've been on here and there is just too much to remember. Therefore, I'm just going to write a few haikus to catch you up on my life and leave it at that. 

Vagina Monologues Performance

I finally learned

To love all my woman self

Even my downstairs

(Thanks to my sisters)

Valentine's Day

I still didn't have a 

bae, but I had a heart shaped

pizza. Ain't that enough?

Junior Year Second Semester

Immunology

When will this torture be done?

Biochemistry 

Tinder

Why do I insist

on measuring myself worth 

by number of likes?

Progress on New Years Resolutions

The only thing I've

managed to successfully 

complete is...nothing. 

Personal

Regain my spiritual connection 

Be (flawless and) FEARLESS

START BEING A BOSS

Stop saying "like" so much

Write more (begin working on book)

Read more

Make a routine and stick to it! 

Don't overcommit to things 

Manage time better 

Be more confident in self! 

Speak with more authority 

Relationships

Forget about the haters

Get rid of my frenemies 

Throw less shade

Make an effort to spend more time with people that actually matter

Make an effort to spend more time with myself 

Fall in love (first with myself, then with someone who loves me too)

Be more adult-like with my parents

Be less kid-like with my siblings

Health

Start eating healthy 

Find something active that I enjoy 

Work on getting the body I want (while in the mean time loving the body I have)

Become obsessed with flossing again

Use my new pore cleaner 

Education

Do well on the MCATs (study for the MCATs)

Get a 4.0 for the rest of the semesters at Pitt

Secure something for my gap year

Political

Start a revolution!

Develop myself politically 

Educate myself about important issues

Hang out with people that make an effort to educate themselves

Seriously? This blog is called “tayotellsthetruth”.

Our world is such that certain groups of people: women, minorities, non-cis, non-straight, and others labeled as “others” are oppressed by normative groups. I’m just trying to educate the world about this. I’m just trying to educate myself about this. I’m just trying to to tell the truth. If you don’t like what I have to say, you can unfollow. 

Also, I think it’s sad that you don’t realize that a lot of these issues and poverty are linked. Poverty is systemic! I would say that I’m sure you understand this concept, but since you seem to have a narrow view of race/ gender and the need to talk about these issues, then I won’t make any assumptions.

It’s people like you who don’t understand the reason to talk about certain “awkward” topics that make me mad! We can’t spend all of our lives skirting around the difficult issues. Without this sort of discourse, there can be no progress. 

xx

Tayotellsthetruth