We expect girl bosses to have it all; the career isn't nearly as impressive if they had to sacrifice their love life.

We had kissed a few here and there, saw the ways they performed the same routine, the ways they thought they stood out for more than a few words and a shot. In this bar I learned the ways of showing attraction and love through drinks poured and tabs ignored while I told myself you were one of the same.

You break, and I shed I leap, where you tread 
And if you ever get this message I hope you never forget what I said .

With the dawn of the internet came a flooding of men who hid their identities behind computer screens, breeding a false sense of confidence and fueling an existent hatred of women.

That type of manipulative lust 
is a short term rush
that gets us nothing but temporary and transactional love.

You think cutting out toxic people is enlightenment when the toxicity is in you and your frightened 
by the very temporary physical world and body you live in...

I look to this girl now with all the love in my heart. I understand that she just wanted to be loved and when she latched onto empty words, it was just an attempt to fill the hole in her heart where her own love was supposed to go.

All of the growth I’ve experienced, by way of lessons learned, has transformed me into a woman that will share stories and tales of a time when I was just a shy, angsty girl.