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.

And sometimes the people who seem the most accomplished and together are the ones who can hurt you the deepest.

Every lifetime contains pivot points—sometimes flukes of destiny, sometimes seemingly preordained—that shape and eventually cement one’s path.

You don’t award confidences easily, yet you yearn for the relief that comes with the release of a secret.

Uncertainty is an excruciating state in which to exist.