young Carla

I’ve lived through young versions of myself — I accept:

• Weight fluctuations and different hairstyles 

  that reflected where I was on my journey 

• Overcoming fear to profess love 

• My tattoos and why I committed to them 

• How I used to talk about people instead of ideas 

• Dancing until the party ended in the AM —

  I wish my knees and lower back didn’t age 

• Constantly changing my online aesthetic

• Projecting my unhealed trauma onto others 

• The cleaning fees I paid to Uber

  after partying too hard —

  at least it only happened twice 

• Things I should’ve said and things I should’ve never said  

• My choice of men (lol)

• Spending money on too many lipsticks (I still do)

• How being raised by a single Latina Mom 

  affected my upbringing in positive and

  not-so-positive ways

• New versions of me I grew into and out of 

• That I was happy just for trying

I love young Carla