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     You know that you love communication when your teachers always tell your parents that you're a good kid, but you just talk too much. Or when you're used to going off on tangents and monologues without realizing it. Pretty early on in life, I noticed that my love for communication could sometimes rub people the wrong way. While some people enjoyed conversations with me and always told me that I was “mature for my age”, there were others who didn’t listen, didn’t understand, or got offended by the things I said. Me being young and having low self-esteem, I thought that I should speak less, in order to make everyone happy.

     The one whose happiness I forgot to think about was my own. Being a people pleaser sucks. During that phase of my life where I tried not to rock the boat or say anything that could’ve been misunderstood, I felt this overwhelming sense of emptiness. By the time I got to high school, I had accepted that no matter what I said or whether I spoke at all or not, somebody was always going to misunderstand, disagree, or create a problem with me. So, fuck it. When I was about 15 I started sharing my thoughts and opinions on social media and I never looked back. 

     Not only did I grow further in my communication skills, but I also built a platform from the same voice that I used to hide. The more I spoke, the more I realized that the way that I think is transformative to people and there are actually way more people than I even imagined who resonate with me. At this time in my life, I feel this calling, similar to a duty, to communicate. People need to know my story. People need to hear what I have to say. People need to be transformed. My intention with this blog is that as I share pieces of me, they resonate with pieces of you, and by us showing up as our most authentic selves, we create a ripple effect and change the world.