thoughts, insights and rambles from a girl on a mission to change the world
I haven’t sat down in quite some time just to write. Well, I guess that’s not fully true. I have sat down many times to write. I’ve typed and deleted and typed more and deleted more. Nothing quite sounding right. But I’ve been feeling something inside of me lately. Something that I want to put […]
“Happiness” I tell myself, “is a choice… YOU can make that choice, Evan. The power lies within yourself.” I repeat this over and over in my head, cocooning myself in blankets, holding onto them so tightly that my knuckles start to turn white. Tears streaming uncontrollably. Unable to shake the urge to run at lightening […]
We have for so long lived with the widely accepted idea that in order to survive in this cruel, unfair world, we must work to harden ourselves. That in order to persevere through the pain we will inevitably feel, we must find ways to build up our own armor, our own self-constructed shields. That we […]
T O B E C O M E M O R E C O N F I D A N T I N S P E A K I NG M Y M I N D If I had to choose my most important goal for 2018, that is it. Like most introverts, I often […]
2017 has been, simultaneously, one of the best and worst years of my life. I have not had many words this year to describe all of my many feelings. While I have continued to write and share, there are so many more thoughts bottled up, compiling in my head, that I cannot seem to get […]
Evan Petschke 