Who I Was Isn't Who I Am

I am a 17-year-old girl who has jumped through several hoops to get to where I am today in life. 

I have spent my teenage years healing the younger me. 

The little girl who wasn’t protected. The girl who was taught to mask her emotions and never cry.

I have changed more than once over the past three years.

I have gone from happy to sad. 

Now I can say after many years of not feeling right, I am better.

After years of letting people break my heart, 

I have taken the broken pieces of my heart and I healed them. Mended them back together.

I have become the real me. 

The me that I was always meant to be. 

I am not the same teenage girl I was last year. I am not even the same person I was 6 months ago. 

I have learned to allow myself to change,

To bloom into the person I am meant to be. 

I am a teenage girl who is constantly changing. I am ME.