Mirror, mirror 🪞
Speak those words
you most need to hear.
Say them as yourself.
To yourself.
As much as I want to be
a ventriloquist,
I can’t put those words
into anyone else’s mouth.
If you live in your head, where imaginary conversations are happening all the time, you know what I mean. Those words you’re craving, how can you say them to yourself?
This note to self was written on July 9th, 2021.
In other news, check out this delightfully fluffy hairdo and extremely awkward selfie pose from fall of 2010. I still have that shirt, and I somehow still have the hand mirror I have tucked under my arm: