Fresh Start

The new school year is upon us and I can’t help but be filled with a sense of optimism for change. I’m ready to move on from all the moments of last year and focus on me this year. It might sound selfish and completely ridiculous, but the reality is, I let others push me around. I let them tell me what to do, and how to be and take advantage of everything I give. I’m determined to do what I need to for me, myself and I this time around. I will always have compassion for others; it’s in engrained in who I am. But I will not let the negative actions and words of others abuse me, as they have in the past. I still wear scars on my heart from certain memories, but I have learned that I deserve better. And even though I got hurt and bruised, I was able to realize that it’s because that situation and person wasn’t the right one for me. You can call me ugly, worthless, a nobody and whatever other names you’d like, but I have found, overtime, the confidence and personal faith in myself to know that those words don’t matter. I know in my heart that I am worth everything. Yes I mess up multiple times a day, and I can have a large number of problems, but I also have the ability to be completely giving and selfless. It takes effort and strength and work, but it’s possible. And only I possess what is necessary to make these words true, I trust myself and know myself as the best possible version of myself.

megan willeford