“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent”. Is that really true? I’ve haven’t been close to my father for over 20 years. Whenever I see him, he makes me feel like I’m not good enough. It’s nothing that he really says or does. Maybe it’s what he doesn’t say. He never says that he’s proud of me. I live a quiet, almost meager life. I barely make over minimum wage and I’m a homebody. I love my family, I love God, and I believe in happily ever after.  I made it through my teenage years without getting pregnant or dropping out of school. I chose not to go to college, but I have been working since the summer I graduated.

I guess, in my heart, maybe I don’t feel good enough. I could and should be so much more than what I am. I guess I have been giving my consent.

“Someday I’ll be so damn much more”