To all my Girls
A love letter to all of my girls. Who all are undoubtedly unique and inspiringly beautiful in all of their own ways.
My girls have taught me a lot in the ways that the world turns. They have all individually taught me to appreciate the art of love and deception.
My girls are the only ones who can aid me in this contradictory phenomenon of what society calls the journey of life. A wretched journey, which ends for us all in the same unexpected demise. A journey that, if taken alone, may end in a scheduled premature demise. A reality that many face, which reminds me why I love my girls.
I feel sorrowful for the girls who choose to hate other girls and would rather surround themselves with their boys than with their girls. The girls who are embarrassed to flaunt their own group of girls in fear of feeling stereotypical. An odd way of developing, which I may never understand.
I feel similarly to the girls who allowed their firsts to be experienced together and chose to abandon their girls for their men, rather than continuing to nurture the growing relationship between them and their own unreplaceable group of girls.
My girls have taught me that I am blessed to have them, as some are blessed with only one girl. It must be understood that my girls may show up in your life in a different manner. Perhaps for you, this is a letter not to a group of female presenting adolescents but instead a letter for a male counterpart who represents for you all that my girls represent for me or a letter to a mother who acts in place of your girls. For my mother was, too, my first look at why I should yearn for my own girls.
Before I met my girls, I was uniquely me. A version of me that developed through the isolated experience of girlhood. But after my girls, I am so unapologetically me, much like a flower that’s found an eternal spring.
Before my girls, I had no concept of the understanding of true platonic love. An idea originating from the Greek philosopher Plato's ideas about love that transcended physical attraction; a love focused on intellectual and spiritual connection rather than physical intimacy. Plato’s ideas turn to facts when I am surrounded by my girls.
Before my girls, I had no concept of the understanding of true platonic love. An idea originating from the Greek philosopher Plato's ideas about love that transcended physical attraction; a love focused on intellectual and spiritual connection rather than physical intimacy. Plato’s ideas turn to facts when I am surrounded by my girls.
My girls are a blessing and a curse. We have taught each other all we must yield to return gracefully from our journeys into this horrific society. The idea of embracing all of the five love languages and the idea of a true loving friendship are all ideas set into stone in my guarded mind by my precious girls. But they have also created a sense of impending doom as we all await our plane, which will take us to the very beginning of our adult lives. A life I hope will include all of my girls.
I have begun to finally understand the final level of love, of true love, and I owe it all to my girls. Every girl deserves to have their own uniquely impossible girlhood and their own uniquely perfect girls because, in the grand scheme of our wretched society, we are all just little girls hoping one day we may grow up and understand this mysterious world.
