Amysaysyesplease hikaye

How saying yes in my career as a journalist changed everything. This is my entry for the #AmySaysYesPlease contest. It chronicles my decision to move from a publication I was familiar and comfortable with to another that I knew very little about.

A girl is walking next to a boy She accidentally slips He holds her She looks into his eyes She sees sadness and pain He looks at her and sees how much of a beauty she really is He decides to get to know this girl And from there he wonders if that was a mistake What does the future hold Copyright © 2014 by HazarIssa

My entry for Amy Poehler's Yes Please contest! Enjoy :)

Trample the weak. Hurtle the dead. A memoir. My entry for Amy Poehler's contest. #AmySaysYesPlease

Winning entry for the Yes Please by Amy Poehler Writing Contest!!

for #amysaysyesplease contest based on real life events

There are all sorts of things wrong with me. Major depressive disorder, anxiety, body dismorphic syndrome, bipolar disorder, the list goes on. I'm no freak, just Kailey Madison Zimmerman. An average teenage girl. Sure, I dress different, I deal with things that most people don't. But i'm still not much different. However, other kids at school don't agree. To them, I'm a freak. A slut, a psychotic weirdo. I try not to let it get to me. I can't help it though. You see, I have this dangerous coping skill, and addiction, if you will. Making myself bleed was the only way I could survive. But little did I know, that with the help of one boy, that will soon change drastically.

In a perfect world . . . We'd get to hang out with Amy Poehler, watching dumb movies, listening to music, and swapping tales about our coworkers and difficult childhoods. Because in a perfect world, we'd all be friends with Amy-someone who seems so fun, is full of interesting stories, tells great jokes, and offers plenty of advice and wisdom (the useful kind, not the annoying kind you didn't ask for, anyway). Unfortunately, between her Golden Globe-winning role on Parks and Recreation, work as a producer and director, place as one of the most beloved SNL alumni and cofounder of the Upright Citizens' Brigade, involvement with the website Smart Girls at the Party, frequent turns as acting double for Meryl Streep, and her other gig as the mom of two young sons, she's not available for movie night. Luckily we have the next best thing: Yes Please, Amy's hilarious and candid book. A collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, lists, and haikus from the mind of one of our most beloved entertainers, Yes Please offers Amy's thoughts on everything from her "too safe" childhood outside of Boston to her early days in New York City, her ideas about Hollywood and "the biz," the demon that looks back at all of us in the mirror, and her joy at being told she has a "face for wigs." Yes Please is chock-full of words and wisdom to live by.

Saying Yes to one simple question can lead to worlds of difference. #AmySaysYesPlease

On a perfectly ordinary day, I woke up and got dressed, not knowing that everything was soon to change.