Here I am
I have never been to the edge of the world.
I have never seen the ocean.
I have never gone to college.
I have never gotten a tattoo.
I have never been exceptional...
I wonder how it feels to be the person everybody wants to know and I wonder how feels to be held in your mother's arms as she proclaims how proud she is of you.
I have never heard the words I'm proud of you.
I wonder how it feels to go a day without feeling the searing pain in your leg that had stopped you from doing the one sport you were good at and I wonder how it feels to always be number one.
I have never heard the words you are better.
Yet, here I stand.
I have felt the emptiness that comes with the bitter depression when a mother abandons you and I have felt the loneliness of a stepmother who hates her husband's children.
I'm not different. Yet, here I stand.
Life has never given me handouts. I have risen from the mud that life has kicked me into and I am never giving up.
I may have never been worth knowing but I will not stop working until I am.
So here I am.
One day this will change. I will wait for the day when I ask people to stop talking about my adventures. I have made my first step by not letting myself stay in the mud. I will never quit.
Here I am.