- Being a girl is being afraid to like the color pink, because you don’t want people to think you’re a girly-girl. You're not. But as you get older you realize that pink is the color of sunsets, of love, of flowers and everything nice. It is realizing that it’s just a color, only a color.
- Being a girl is experiencing men telling you how to be. That one time you sat on the beach, with the sun in your eyes and your face scrunched up, and a passing man told you to not look so down. To look at the waves. Because of course you’d fix your face just for his wishes. It is the lingering resentment after.
- Being a girl is feeling like you’ll never fit in, during the ups and downs of school and tumultuous friendship. It is finding solace in yourself, learning to be your own best friend. It is learning that lonely and alone aren’t the same thing.
A brief, incomplete overview of being a girl
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mid-afternoon thoughts
periwinkle-blue light through my shuttered windows
my heart is racing but my mind is blank with things I don't know how to express
that k-drama I just watched stirred something in me
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flash flood
The rush of information from a single swipe
Is a current that threatens to sweep me away
Each new voice adding another issue to the many already bouncing around my head.
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sister space
The late nights usually surrendered to sleep
Are instead spent rolled over on our sides
Eyelids weak and the arms that hold up our heads weaker
As we run rivers of words out of our mouths.
Comments
Hell ya. So true.
why do girls have an "I hate pink" phase, if boys don't have an "I hate blue" phase?? that's the real question
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