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"When you find yourself in some far off place, and it causes you to rethink some things, you start to sense that slowly you’re becoming someone else. That’s when you find yourself.” –Brad Paisley, Find Yourself  The craziest things I have ever done were piercing my cartilage and dyeing my hair pink. Within the same month. I remember coming home from my friends house and showing my mom the pink in my hair. It was almost midnight, but she looked as if she were going to call my hairdresser and have her chop it all off. The next day, my friends and family were saying how this just didn’t seem like something I would do, that it didn’t fit my “personality”. And to that I wondered: which personality are they referring to? Girls have multiple personalities. We have personalities that depend on what we’re wearing. We have personalities that depend on our emotions. We have personalities that depend on our dreams. We have personalities that depend on who we want to be. One secon...

“Go on and try to tear me down, I will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper.” –Demi Lovato, Skyscraper You know what’s scary? Monsters. When we were kids, we were afraid of them jumping out at us from our closets or under our beds. There was even a movie made about it! As we got older, we discovered that there were no such things as monsters that would come after us and eat us in our sleep. Instead, we discovered monsters that live inside our heads. There’s the Busy Monster, the one who keeps you up at night, going through lists of things you have to get done. There’s the Loneliness Monster, the one who convinces you that you’re alone in life and can’t depend on anyone. There’s the Not Good Enough Monster, the one who tells you that no matter how much you do, no matter how hard you work, no matter how good your heart is, you will never be good enough. He’s my least favorite monster. He has a name, too. It’s ED. Now, ED and I now each other pretty well. I heard about him...