An Anonymous Girl

by Greer Hendricks

We all have reasons for our actions. Even if we hide the reason from those who think they know us best. Even if the reasons are so deeply buried we can’t recognize them ourselves.

I don’t fear strangers, though. I’ve learned more harm can come from familiar faces.

Strangers know nothing about you, which is why many feel like they can share their deepest secrets with people they will never meet again

When money and morality intersect, the results can illuminate intriguing truths about human character. People are motivated to break their moral compasses for a variety of primal reasons: survival, hate, love, envy, passion. And money.

If the man you loved gave you reason to doubt him, could you ever trust him again?

The symptoms of anxiety typically include perspiration, a spike in blood pressure, and physical restlessness. But not for everyone. A rare few present the opposite symptoms: There is a physical quieting, an enhanced mental focus, and a chilling of the extremities.

This is too close for comfort. I belong to the latter

Uncertainty is an excruciating state in which to exist.

We all have reasons for our judgments, even if those reasons are so deeply buried we don’t recognize them ourselves.

EVERY FAMILY GENERATES its own particular dysfunction. Many people believe that once they cross the threshold into adulthood, this legacy can be shed. But the maladjusted dynamics that have been imprinted upon us, often since childhood, are tenacious.

I think it takes a lifetime to correct a dysfunctional childhood.