as I stared at my reflection, the words "you're not good enough" clouded my mind the person looking directly at me, was not me it wasn't the person I wanted myself to be I spent years and years trying to perfect myself in a way where I would be "good enough" I let every insult slowly tear the very skin that made me human I wanted to live up to the expectations my parents had, only to be disappointed with innumerous failures set up along my path but then I realized after beating myself up day and night and after i had no skin left to tear, that humans weren't meant to be "good enough" us humans were meant to be better from then on, I grew on skin so thick even words couldn't puncture it