Sweater Therapy

Going through a struggle in life diverts people in many directions. My struggle brought me do fall in love with sweaters because of their therapeutic quality. Why sweaters? When I was fourteen, my mother started shopping at thrift stores bragging about the “steals” she would get on “designer” cashmere. My small closet grew from a home of twosweaters to a home of about twenty sweaters. It wasn’t until the end of my sophomore year of high school that I began to grow an attatchement to my sweaters. Each sweater represented a part of me. Each sweater in my closet told a story, be it joyous, hardship, even humor, all of my sweaters had a voice. The beginning of my Junior year of highschool, there was a shock to my everyday life, that brought me and my sweaters even closer. At that point me and my fourty-two sweaters were friendly, but they were still sweaters to me. It wasn’t until later that my sweaters became my sense of belonging and my security blanket. Now with a collection of eighty-three sweaters, to fill the gaps in my heart, I am on a mission to have my sweaters seen.