Over the Top

by Jonathan Van Ness

Because when you have this much personality, there’s a fear lurking just below the surface: If you knew all of me, you wouldn’t love me anymore.

Joy can live beside sorrow. Life is messy, unpredictable, and seldom tied into neat little boxes.

But living in a world where it’s so easy to take everyone’s highly curated Instagram feed at face value, it’s important to dig deeper, to read between the lines, to see through all of it and not compare yourself to them!

Even in my loneliest times, I knew I could go deep into my imagination and create a better reality for myself, and that spilled into my life in so many other areas.

Cancer will always be a thief, a greedy bitch who steals the dignity from the people closest to you. It’s a fate I could not wish on anyone. This fate, this unfairness, this reality was something I would not face—could not face.

If you’re on a team that’s not as passionate about your path as you are, then, queen, no harm no foul but you gotta go. And go I did to a team that changed my career forever.