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It felt really personal.

Medium·Riya Yadav·21 days ago
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Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Truong Tuyet Ly on Unsplash I always narrate my life in my head. Like I am in an imaginary podcast or giving a TED Talk to an audience that does not exist. I know I may never actually say most of these things out loud. Sometimes they feel too small compared to everything else happening in the world. But when I was living through them, they felt huge. My first two years of high school were good. I was your typical teenager. Head girl of the school, overly obsessed with a guy, constantly moving between happiness and sadness over things that now sound dramatic but felt very real at the time. Then came 11th. I had stopped going to school regularly because I was preparing for exams. While I was gone, everyone else kept living their lives. My friends made new friends, formed new groups, built memories without me. When I came back, almost everybody had someone new except my best friend. Love her forever honestly. I did not mind people having new friends.…

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