Meraki

One Extreme To The Other

I am coming from a place where I know how it used to be.

I know what it felt like to hate every last thing about myself.

I know what it is like to literally have one friend.

I know how it feels to hate your body.

And I know what it's like to have a parent verbally abuse you to the point where you want to end your life.

But I overcame all of that.

I am learning how to love myself.

I went from being so sad that I wouldn't leave my bed for days, to being so happy that I sometimes don't even know what to do with myself.

I went from hating my weight because of what bullies said to me, to loving every inch of my body.

I went from thinking the world was out to get me, to realizing that it is not at all.

I went from having 159 absences, to not missing a single day the rest of the school year.

I went from solving my problems with a bottle of vodka, to using a paper and pen to help me through my struggles.

Change is possible

and you can love yourself.

You just have to want it bad enough.

I'm not going to lie

I still have bad days

but the good days help me remember where I came from

and I have grown so much.

-C.D.