Something I have found myself questioning repeatedly, that I probably will never have one concrete answer to is, what do I want want from this life? I know where my passion is, and I am working on creating something out of it, but more importantly, I keep asking myself: why do I want to? I have a myriad of ideas and I am always wanting to create something from them. The more work I put into one project in particular, the more I have found myself coming to a standstill, and then it dawned on me, I approached this book with a complete backward justification the minute I started thinking I was creating it for someone other than myself.
I think when we are younger, we have feel the need to have a sense of status in our society that only continues to develop as we mature. This, I believe stems from several places, but nonetheless, we feel this sense of entitlement. I remember feeling the need to look a certain way at school in order to fit in and just be cool. That got old very quickly when I realized I looked like every other girl in school and so I changed that immediately and embraced my personal style. I dropped the “popular” labels and finally felt like me and had everyone ask where I bought my clothes and every time I refused to tell them. I wish I could say I accomplished this in other aspects of my life, but things take time, especially confidence when you know you are different.