letters to a few women in my life
Happy International Women's Day! There are so, so many important, influential women in my life. My friends, my family, and some women I don't even know. They deserve to be acknowledged. Here, I will publicly acknowledge a few of them through somewhat heartfelt letters. But, just know, I love them all from the bottom of my heart. I love strong women, let us know them, let us be them. Don't forget to give a shoutout to the kickass women in your life today!
Dear mom,
It hasn't always been rainbows and butterflies with us. But, that's okay, rainbows and butterflies are kind of boring and cliché anyway. What kind of relationship is all good anyway? I'm glad with where we are now though, we've made so much progress in this mother-daughter relationship. And while I know you're my mom, you're my best friend too. You've taught me so much over the years: typical womanhood stuff, and all about life too. Because of you, I'm learning to be less stubborn, I'm learning to not hold grudges and to let go. I'm learning how to forgive and move on. I'm learning how to make myself better while not pushing anyone else down along the way. I'm learning to have a new appreciation for all things and people in my life. And I'm learning to grow and flourish as a person in ways I didn't even think possible. So thank you for that. I know this isn't even close to being the end of my learning things from you either. You have always been here for me in a way no one else could possibly. There's just something about the comfort of your mom. I still want you to take care of me when I'm sick and you're still the first person I want to talk to when I'm sad. I feel so incredibly blessed to have such a great relationship with my mom, because I know a lot of people aren't fortunate enough to have that. And I'll try my absolute hardest not to take it for granted anymore. I love you.
Jules,
I think our relationship is pretty typical for sister relationships. In the sense that we fight a lot, but we're also best friends. Thanks for always making fun of me, but thanks for always hyping me up too. We need that balance. Sorry for ignoring your FaceTime calls a lot. I love you though. I'm really proud of the person you're becoming. You've really grown up in the past few years. There were setbacks, but you handled them really well for your age. And you're still doing that. I'm really happy with the relationship you and I have #Blessed. It sucks that we can't see each other that often, but that makes it that much better when we're together, and let's be real, if we were together all the time, that might just be an explosion of constant bickering. You've always been someone everyone looked up to and wanted to be, and I've always been jealous of that. But, I've come to realize that I've got everyone beat because you're my sister and that'll pretty much always top everyone else. Come visit me this summer, love you.
I just want to say really quickly, that my mom and my sister aren't the only kickass, badass, strong, amazing women in my life. There's so many of them, and I'm so grateful for them.