35. She hit me all the time for varying reasons. We had been friends since I was two and she was three so I thought this was normal.
36. She gossiped about our other friends and other people way too much. She loved “getting information” on people and would hang out with them just to do so. She would even straight up complain about someone sometimes, claiming they bully her and she never wants to hang out with them anymore, but she would always voluntarily go hang out with them again.
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“You are the only person who gets to decide if you are happy or not—do not put your happiness into the hands of other people. Do not make it contingent on their acceptance of you or their feelings for you. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if someone dislikes you or if someone doesn’t want to be with you. All that matters is that you are happy with the person you are becoming. All that matters is that you like yourself, that you are proud of what you are putting out into the world. You are in charge of your joy, of your worth. You get to be your own validation. Please don’t ever forget that.” — Bianca Sparacino
Excerpted from The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino.
