I have been thinking of expectations and pressures and the weight of the opinion of people who supposedly care about you and have your best interest in mind.  But I’ve realized that all you owe the people who love you (as opposed to the ones who try to sway you into whatever little role they have assigned for you in their own universe for the sake of their peace of mind), all you need to do to make the people who really love you happy, is to be happy.

September 17th