And the day came when the risk to remain in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anais Nin

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that this new world is born.

And the day came for the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality...I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself.