I’m an introvert and I like being alone. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want friends, which is why is was so painful to believe for much of my life that no one really liked me. To anyone who knows me, that will sound absurd. Even in high school, the most melodramatic and lonely period [...]
The anonymity of the Internet does something to the human psyche. It lets you strip away all the worries of acceptance and rejection and get down to the honest, bare-bone truth of yourself. By the time you get to the end, you know what you really are all about and you know which questions you [...]
I remember being very very sensitive as a child, a young adult and into my twenties. The smallest comment would affect me in the biggest way, whether it was to me or to someone I cared about. For those I cared about, I would embrace the stubborn side of me and defend a friend or [...]