Never let anyone make you feel like a loser!

I’ve recently been healing from an incredibly emotionally abusive friendship. In my writer-esque nature, I am an incredibly sensitive person, so I wanted to remind anyone that friends can be abusive! People are capable of stealing your light (literally and figuratively) regardless of their relationship with you. Please don’t let them!

nadia mysteria
2 min readJun 22, 2023
Dolce Far Niente”- Solo exhibition documentation — Jheyda McGarrell

To the endless plethora (or self-sustaining voids) of girls everywhere with a bloody bitten tongue, complete with teeth marks comfortably molded onto a space where the pain turns into a fake and sadistic pleasure.

I’ve recently been reminded about the magic of morning dew and dirty carpets. It’s true that coming home for you will always feel like driving under a highway bridge while it’s stormy and grey. Interpret that as you must (either identify with the storm or the shelter, or some magic unidentifiable thing tied to all of it).

I know you don’t often feel compelled to share your thoughts or feelings with others. But you remember the pit in your stomach every time you sense she’s mad? You remember the slammed doors, the forceful puffs of air every time she had to pass through.

She’s not your friend.

Do you remember who you were last summer? That’s who you’ll be forever. I mean it. You loved her, and she’s still with you everywhere you go. The little girl you were that summer is who you will be forever.

Has anyone called you boring? I promise you a million times that your revolutionary epiphanies and constant reinventions of yourself will always be incredibly interesting. Talking through friend drama over the old MacBook photobooth, singing dramatic karaoke, and reading Rookie Mag articles.

Don’t let people ridicule you to the point of tears, over your boringness. Don’t let them shatter your foundation of self! Never let anyone make you feel like a loser!

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