My wakeup call wasn’t some light switch of empowerment. From as early as preschool I feared that if I didn’t grow up to be the pretty princess men fawned over, I was a failure. That mentality was my disease. It got me raped. It made me feel dirty and devalued because my cherry wasn’t popped on a bed of rose petals. It fueled an adolescence juggling starvation and vomiting until my throat bled out and my stomach acid burned through the plumbing. It made me snort coke, smoke meth, and routinely gulp down narcotic petri dishes in hopes of obtaining hallucinogenic intimacy with junkie boyfriends. But most of all, it made me waste my youth chasing, obsessing over, fighting for, worshipping, clinging to, and crying over one after another loser. At some point, I just quit giving a fuck. Maggie Georgiana Young
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In the 60's, a lot of people were dealing with the same thing as you. Young people were being killed in Vietnam. America was stuck in a war that didn't seem to end. Kids were being abused by their parents and teachers.

And, a lot of people were dealing with a lot of pain and issues. It's not surprising that a lot of teenagers had a hard time processing all this information and feelings. They felt hurt, scared, confused, and angry. All this made them feel like they didn't belong to anything or anyone.

So, if your life sucks right now, it could be because you're just waking up from your dream. As long as you're stuck in this dream, you'll keep feeling sad and hopeless. You'll keep feeling trapped and dirty. You'll keep feeling worthless and left out.

You'll keep hurting yourself just to feel something good for a moment. But no matter how much you hurt yourself, there's nothing good coming from it at all! The only way out of your darkness is to wake up from this dream so that you can open your eyes and see what's really going on around you!

Source: Just Another Number

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