She is me
She is the kind of girl
who learned young
that life does not fight fair.
A girl who heard the word “cancer”
not once
but twice,
and still somehow found the strength
to smile through hospital walls,
through needles,
through fear that sat heavy in her chest
when nobody else could hear it breathing.
A girl who broke her neck twice
but never let life break her spirit.
A girl whose body carried pain
most people could never imagine,
yet whose heart still beat gently enough
to comfort everyone around her.
She knows anxiety intimately,
knows depression by name,
knows what it feels like
to fight wars in your own mind
while pretending everything is okay.
She knows insecurities,
self-conscious thoughts,
the ache of never fully feeling accepted
by the people she wanted love from most.
But somehow…
somehow she still became light.
The kind of light
that walks into a room
and makes hurting people feel seen.
The kind of light
that checks on everyone else
even when she herself is falling apart.
The kind of soul
who will break quietly in private
but still spend the whole day
trying to make somebody else laugh.
Even battling cancer,
she found ways to smile.
She turned a riding lawn mower eyebrow
into a tattoo and wore it proudly,
because if life was going to leave scars,
she was going to turn them into art.
That is strength.
Not the loud kind.
Not the kind that never cries.
But the kind that wakes up every morning
after life has tried to destroy her
and still says,
“Not today.”
She has known heartbreak too.
The kind that hollows you out.
The kind that makes trusting people terrifying.
Yet she still loves
with her whole heart,
like she has never once been betrayed.
Because despite everything life has taken,
it never managed to take her softness.
It never stole her compassion.
It never hardened the beautiful parts of her.
And maybe that is her greatest victory of all.
She is proof
that survival is not always loud.
Sometimes survival looks like
a girl with invisible scars
choosing kindness anyway.
A girl who keeps going.
Keeps loving.
Keeps hoping.
Keeps shining.
A girl who has every reason
to give up on the world
but instead wakes up every day
trying to make it better for someone else.
And no matter what life throws at her next,
one thing remains true:
She will conquer it all.
