Sometimes I Lie Awake at Night

Zora Neale Hurston once said "If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." Reading this quote for the very first time changed my life forever. For a long time I felt as if my life, my experiences and my being did not deserve to take up space. I felt I, nor my feelings mattered and for a long time I lived under the narrative that other people set upon me. I stayed silent, acted obediently and never did too much. I was afraid to be myself. I was afraid to live ...