The Personal Assistant

by Kimberly Belle

When did external validation become a prerequisite for our inner peace? Doubts, stresses, anxieties, expectations, comparisons. Let all that shit go. Live your own life, be your own person. Show the world your authentic, badass self and the rest will come. You are perfect as you are.”

There’s nothing quite as savage as a preteen’s ridicule. It leaves a mark, one that lingers for a very long time.