You don’t need your parents, your siblings, or anyone else to confirm what you already know. You are enough. You always have been.
Do me a favor. Tonight, or whenever you’re done reading this, go stand in front of a mirror. Look yourself in the eyes and say it out loud:
I am enough.
That’s the first step. The rest—that’s up to you. But I believe in you.
Because if a girl who was once called “not worth the investment” can stand on a stage in front of three thousand people as a Whitfield Scholar and valedictorian, then walk off that stage into a life she built with her own hands, you can do anything.
