Growing up never gets easier, but try growing up in the generation raised on the internet. Your world is personally evolving as you mature, and you have front-row tickets to watch the world get shaken around. In-between beauty standards, trends, culture shocks, and so much more, you are expected to become a model citizen, the perfect representation of your parents. This is the new normal, but it never gets easier, especially if you're a little black girl.
Some things are better kept inside, or at least that's what I told myself for a long time. I'm an introvert in common terms. I feel a lot, but I don't say a lot. I keep things inside until I feel like I'm going to explode. You are reading those explosions. Here are all my inner thoughts and highlights of words written inside my journals. This is me growing up.
All The Things I Never Said.