Whitman College
“I am not my dark thoughts”
I have developed an interest in darkness. The eternal questions of why suffering exists and what happens when we die have always plagued my thoughts since I could comprehend such questions to any meaningful depth. A fear has grown within me that sort of just floats in the back of my mind — why bother? … Read more
“I am not my comparison”
To understand my place in the world, I often rely on whether or not I’m doing what everyone else is doing, if I am following the rules prescribed to me, or I let others tell me what to do. My perceived sense of worth is created through the opinions and wants of other people, so … Read more
“I am not my treatment”
My adoption is my lived reality. I don’t like talking about my family – either the adoptive one I know or the biological one I can only speculate about – because the experience is more often isolating than it is unifying. Along with many other adopted children, I spend a part of every day wondering … Read more