Putting all this stuff online was my version of putting tattoos on my hands.
There are jobs I will never get because of it.
It’s permanent.
I didn’t have a single flashback while I was on the road for two weeks.
“But I am giving you my time.”
I secretly thought I was going to die by 40.
For those of us who, due to trauma, always thought we’d die young,
You cannot shame them.
They cannot be reasoned with.
The ones who aren’t rich:
a) want to make sure no one darker than a grocery bag is doing better than them, and
It still baffles me that people cling to the mere idea of wealth so hard that they would rather…