Brianna Wiest

That you’re essentially paying thousands of dollars to end up with a piece of paper and maybe a job that pays off your debt. Maybe.

It may be because I know that every person reading this has, in some way, at some level, has experienced what I did. Everybody feels this way at some point.

Because even if some people are cruel, I can get past that, and listen in case something they are saying is rooted in the truth. When I stumble, I look at what it is I’m tripping over.

Never stop asking questions. They should be a fascinating entity that you’re always getting to know at an even deeper level.

Loving yourself means knowing that you will never have the love, praise and approval of absolutely everybody you meet, but that doesn’t reflect anything about who you are.

Although I do believe there is some greater orchestration and intricate plan that was devised for us (or by us) pre-incarnation to aide us in our soul development, I think we can choose how we experience it.

Love is undefinable because it’s constantly being redefined.

But when we start living within that cage, and decorating its steel bars with pretty little flowers, we’re brainwashed into thinking that it’s the real, free universe.

FGM encompasses a variety of procedures that involve the cutting of female genitals, known to some as female circumcision. The most extreme case of this is where the clitoris and inner labia are removed, and the outer labia are sewn together.

And yet, I still believe, that although that love may have been all of those challenging things, it was still unconditional, undeniable, and above all, beautiful.

We can sometimes begin to think of ourselves as being only the summation of what others can perceive.

Happiness, if you think about it, is the biggest conundrum we face.