“She’s whiskey in a teacup”
How many times in our lifetime do we let someone else define our happiness? For a lot of people, it’s more than you could count on both hands. At some point in everyone’s life, there comes a time when we feel like we just can’t carry ourselves on our own two feet, and we long for someone to lean on. That’s where you come into play. You’ve got to stand, you’ve got to fight and you’ve got to keep going, whether the people you want by your side are there or not.
Take yourself out on a date, get your nails done, go buy yourself that makeup palette that you’ve been wanting for ages, whatever it is that will keep you moving forward through that day...GO. Trust me, I’ve been there. There have been times where I couldn’t see why I kept trying to smile when I just couldn’t feel it for real. I kept asking myself why I continued trying to convince everyone else when I couldn’t even convince myself? Why did I care if people thought I was happy, or sad, or angry? It wasn’t their life or their business for that matter, but I knew I needed to fix it.
My head told me one thing and my heart told me another. I let people who didn’t care about me nearly as much as I cared about them, play with my heart and they made sure to tug on my heart strings and make that final tear that left me heartbroken and empty. My emotions were disconnected from my thoughts, and after a while, I knew I had to do something. It’s okay to feel down, it’s okay to have “those days” but it's not okay to keep feeling like that.
So change your perspective. Sure, the boy you love may have broken your heart, and yeah, you and your best friend may be in a huge argument, but you know what? It’s time for you to take the reigns. This is your life, and you need to be in control of it. It won’t be easy, but it’ll be worth it. The struggle that you’re going through now, will build the strength you need tomorrow, and you’ll find yourself looking back and wondering why you ever let yourself feel that way in the first place. Find good people, forget the people who ever made you feel like you weren’t good enough. Try sushi (and probably hate it because let's face it, it’s gross) go out and have a good time with your friends, have a girls night, eat a whole tub of ice cream by yourself. You’ve got this. You weren’t placed here so life could run you, you were placed here so you could run it, so you better give it a run for its money.
Pick your head up princess, your tiara is falling. Everything is going to be alright.
