themimiverse
Sometimes, I wish that I was the 12 year old girl back then. The one who had filed away 146 story drafts in her Apple iPod. She was much more creative and so full of spirit for writing. She wrote every second of the day and devoured books of all kind, nothing could stop her. I like to think the me of now is more settled, calm and more confident, but it makes me anxious to know that with that calm, I lost that strange spark little 12 year me had. Where are you, little one? I'm sorry I called your writing terrible, though it lacked grace, structure and pretty adjectives, it was bursting with love and happiness and sheer excitement. It was truly beautiful to see your thoughts on paper, so choppy and uncut, so jarring and so fresh. It had a vibrant glow that no polished, clean cut, and well written story of mine could ever achieve. It was truly a work of art. I am but a fool. I have erased, scrutinized, critiqued the same words I once called masterpieces. Your emotions ceased to exist because I was foolish, so foolish. I was so mean to you. I am sorry. With skill, with grace in writing, I've lost how to be a child. I regret so much. Those 146 drafts. Those 146 little bits of your soul, I destroyed with so little love. I replaced your mismatched lovely rainbow with monotone mature shades of beige. And how much I despise it. How little I cared for your childish love. How little I nurtured it. And now I live to regret it. This pain, writers block, I earned it all. This confusion, this blank page, well deserved. I must suffer and see how foolish I've become.
mitzinkim
@MinKiBlue Reading through this truly did give me appreciation for my past self- man, when will there be a day where we all love ourselves no matter the age or no matter how different we were from our present selves? I feel like everyone believes that there's always going to be a better version of ourselves, but we forget to thank the people we were before we grew into us now. Maybe we will learn, but for now, I think we need to walk down memory lane and thank our past selves for all the times they helped become our present selves UwU I repeated words way too much in this-
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