TORN by Becky Hemsley

"TORN"
by Becky Hemsley

For a long time I would tear myself to pieces trying to play the characters that other people needed on their pages and in their stories.

I would try to remember the lines I thought they needed me to speak and the plots they wanted me to follow.

And so I became a collage of characters. Tiny scraps of different people all a little frayed at the edges.

And sometimes I would do great things and sometimes I would make mistakes.

So sometimes I became the hero

and sometimes I became the villain.

No matter how unintentional.

But that’s ok.

I’ve realised that it’s ok.

Because I’ve since learned that I’m not a character in someone else’s story and I don’t need to tear myself apart trying to fit in.

I am my own person.

I have my own pages. My own story.

And instead of becoming a collage of who I thought I needed to be,

I’ve realised all along…

that I only ever needed to be myself.

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Becky Hemsley 2023

Artwork by the super talented gisifraga

'Torn' is from 'Letters from Life' https://a.co/d/dp9CktB

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