The Journey

These essays come from an attempt to express my story and find peace . So often from journaling I've ended up still feeling stuck and like my feelings still just had to remain with me. In a sense, it added to my loneliness. I was doing it because I had no one safe (outside of a therapist) to talk to about how I felt. However, I also knew that I needed to feel my feelings and release what was being stuck in my head. At times, talking it out with myself helped (and it still does), but some of experiences were so big that it wasn’t enough to just talk it out. These experiences were full on stories. So I decided to write my story. I originally planned on writing a book. However, every time I tried, I never knew where to start or how to organize it. My life and experiences felt like fragments, connected by these phrases that connected deeply with me. So instead of forcing myself into one story, I decided stick with embracing my chaos and write in a way that made sense to me, and so began a collection of messy fragmented essays.