You can enjoy my pain for the time I am under your will. But it won't last. I will be free.

I'm a project. I manage myself. I'm a project manager.

You didn't build me. So, you will not destroy me.

This is the message that I tell myself when my back is against the wall, 'this is not my place. I'm not meant to last in this position. I'm meant to keep on moving. And there's a better place than being stuck against this wall.' Then, I twist, turn, and do everything I can to release myself from that position.

Remember whom you were before you met them.

You were someone special before you met them. And you will continue being one even after they've left you.

Keep them close if they love you for living in your truth. But weigh their intentions if they love you for living in their truth.

I could surrender and please the masses. But the self-betrayal would be the end of me.

I am educated, yes. Even so, my education is for me. I've had people classify my intelligence based on my certificates. I've had people assume my success based on my education. But in the end, neither success nor intelligence can be truly measured by certificates.