If You Could See the Sun

by Ann Liang

there are no ugly women, only lazy women—but from what I’ve gathered, it’s more like there are no ugly women, only broke women);

I guess that’s the thing: I’ve spent my whole life longing to be seen, but I’ve also come to realize that when people look too closely, they inevitably notice the ugly parts too,

The neglected ones, the unlucky ones, the ones who want more than they’ve been given. The ones who have to crawl and scrape and fight their way up from the very bottom, who have to game a system designed for them to lose. Always the first to be punished and blamed when things go wrong. Always the last to be seen, to be saved.

And while it’s important to know how to fight your way to the top... It’s always nice when there are others to help lift us up, don’t you think?”

To live well, you must learn to see yourself first.