Rookie is no longer publishing new content, but we hope you'll continue to enjoy the archives, or books, and the community you've helped to create. Thank you for seven very special years! ✴
Rookie is no longer publishing new content, but we hope you'll continue to enjoy the archives, or books, and the community you've helped to create. Thank you for seven very special years! ✴
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You are so wise Alia! Thank you for sharing your wisdom. Makes me feel less alone in my alienated blobness and feeling of inadequacy. Friendships take time, but even though I know that it is so hard to be patient some days when the waves of loneliness hit you and all you want to do is feel connected and loved.
Thank you. I needed this article. I’ve found this website thanks to a TED Talk I’ve just watched at 2 am and I couldn’t be happier that I clicked on that video. I’m finally graduated from high school and I’m moving to a new city for university in some months, which is making me feel anxious and excited at the same time. So, again, thank you. Your words cheered me up and I that was exactly what I needed.
this almost made me cry because it was so comforting! i am So unbelievably nervous to be leaving home and my mum, but this reframed a lot of the negative fears I have into something more hopeful – thank you!