" Stop."

" No, I can't, or it'll all go to waste. "

" Why are you so obsessed with validation? What the heck are you trying to prove? No one cares! "

" I DO. I care! "

" I care because it has to mean something! The humiliation, the begging, the tears, the pain, it has to ******* mean something! There has to be a reason for it because I refuse to accept the thought I suffered; I went through ******* **** for nothing! That I have to heal, patch the wounds, the trauma that others gave me! "