This Is Me.
This is me. This is happy. This is a daughter, a friend, a sister. This is a student. This is a white, American female. This is a reader, an artist, a singer. This is a yogi, a lover of the outdoors, a seeker of adventure. This is a Child of God. This is also me. This is depression. This is anxiety. This is an eating disorder. This is wishing I could sleep through life sometimes. This is a struggling self-image, a horrible personal critic, a professional self-doubter. This is also a Child of God. This is both. We can be both. I am confident in saying that most people reading this are both in some way. But where does that last part get lost? Where do we stop seeing that we are all Children of God? It makes me sad seeing the generalizations people make towards others based on skin color, economic status, career, etc. I'll be honest and say that I have been guilty of it before. It's so easy to only see one side of the dichotomy that is the human existence. We are co...