I look at you and I see all that is right, despite how many things that have gone wrong. I look at you and most of all I hope you see yourself not for the cracks and the broken pieces. I hope you see the light that has shined through you, brightening the lives of everyone around you.
There was so much good between us. I think that’s what made it hurt so bad. And it wasn’t all perfect. We challenged each other. We fought like sisters. But for so long we overcame so much together.
We get one life to live and we get to choose how we fuck it up. But we also get to choose how we make it better and how we make the lives around us better.
Because the reality is we live in a male-dominated society.
Sometimes, you just get credit for getting up and going on with things – you don’t have to do it perfectly.
We need to tell today’s youth they can survive this, they are not lost, if ever they stumble down a rocky road.