I Know Who You Are

by Alice Feeney

Not everybody wants to be somebody. Some people just want to be somebody else.

But money is a Band-Aid, not a cure for broken hearts and promises.

I built my prison in the way that people often do, with solid walls made from bricks of guilt and obligation.

Denial is the most destructive form of self-harm.

Ignorance isn’t bliss; it’s fear postponed to a later date.

The world we live in today is too loud, so that most people think they have to shout all the time just to fit in.

I’ve never been great at fitting in, and when I look at the world around me, I’m not sure I even want to.

Life is a game that few of us really know how to play, filled with more snakes than ladders.

We are born alone and we die alone, and we’re all a little bit afraid of being forgotten.

You’ll only fall if you forget you can fly.”

The stories we tell each other about our lives are like snow globes. We shake the facts of what happened in our minds, then watch and wait while the pieces settle into fiction. If we don’t like the way the pieces fall, we just shake the story again, until it looks how we want it to.