To The Past & Everyone Who Judges It

Kayla Trusick
3 min readMay 24, 2022

You watched me fake smile after all the arguments behind closed doors, or every vacation we went on together. Everything we did. Maybe it wasn’t your responsibility to notice, maybe it was. Who cares? Because now I smile and I’m proud of who I am what I’ve done who I’ve become and the real ones can easily see that. The ones who know my heart, and who truly know what I’ve gone through without even knowing the full details are. The ones who actually understand the happiness that lives in my life and around my aura. But in reality none of this matters because it’s always going to be MY life. And how I want to live it. Naysayers only have something to say because they lack what I have gained. I know how I feel, and you’ll never know what’s in my heart and that’s not my problem. I wasn’t born to prove to the world my worthiness, I wasn’t born to devote my time into showing everyone how happy I am for the socials, or to spill all my secrets to family members or past acquaintances who never gave me the time of day. I’m here to live my path, and if you don’t understand that… you were never meant to. My path was never YOURS to understand or take. My path and my decisions are mine. I don’t point fingers or judge your life, I don’t have the time. I’m 24 years old struggling in a world that is constructed for my generation to fail. But I still find happiness and joy in the smallest of pleasures. I still find a way to…

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Kayla Trusick

Artist of Words | Mindfulness & Self Improvement✨ | “Every Great Dream Begins With a Dreamer ” ~ Μεράκι