celina. (she/her)

how am i suppose to be strong when you're the weak one?

halseydaily:

I think young women are too often told that it’s wrong for them to figure out who they are. There’s this expectation for young people in general to figure it all out, and then when they think they have we chastise them for it and say, “you’re too young to know who you are!“ If you think because a young girl listens to pop music it makes her uneducated, that’s stupid. If you think just because a kid is in highschool that they haven’t experienced that much, that’s stupid. When I was in highschool I had two friends die of drug overdoses. I have been through some shit, you know what I mean? I was well-lived, well-cultured, well-traveled, and educated and I was 16 [years old]. This Lolita flower child naivety that everyone wants to paint young women as, I think that kind of mentality has to go away. We need to see young women as strong and full of potential, and when they’re experimenting you need to forgive them for their mistakes.