“You have to abandon the empty, successful, shiny shell of a person you became in order to please your father, to win your selfish boyfriends, to gain your glamorous magazine jobs, and you have to look into the inky hot abyss of your soul and pull out this wretched, messy self that you fear.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.comTagged: Emptiness, emotions, Fear, self, mental wellness