this isn't no intervention.

I've learned so much about myself in the past week that I'm taken aback by the difference in the two people I've encountered: myself now, and myself as of maybe a month ago. Elijah and I have called it "Alone Danielle" when talking about it, and it's appropriate. It's the Danielle that exists when everyone else isn't around, when I don't have someone else to rely on. When it's just me. At first, I was scared to death. I hated being alone without that other person, whoever they happened to be at that time. But I've been growing. I've been finding out how to be a better person on my own. And it's beautiful. I'm doing things that I like doing for myself, things that make me happy or make me feel good. Tanning, talking to cute boys, reading books, finding out how things work, writing. Figuring out how I work.

If we run we might just find that there's a way / there's a way to get out

I don't need someone else to make me feel like the person I know I can be. I can be so much better than I allowed myself when I was with him. I was suppressed by the idea of who I was supposed to be in relation to the personality I have. And that's worrisome, yeah. But instead of worrying about it, I'm moving forward, rebuilding and remembering. It's really something fabulous. It's difficult and sometimes I hate it. But it's something that must be done, ya know? And the end result is something I am genuinely proud of. Something with my name all over it that I can love and call my own.

Mais je t'embrasse / et ca passe / tu vois bien / on se debarrasse moi comme ca

I can do anything I want. I'm strong enough. I'm beautiful enough. I'm intelligent enough. These are things I didn't allow myself to believe before. Now I'm embracing them. Whatever happened between me and someone else is the past at this point. Whatever I said about someone, that was the truth at the time, and it probably still is. So I regret nothing. Everything is the truth, and from the heart. Always. It's easy to understand that everything is always true. No matter what. I'm ready for everything to be the way it should be. I'm doing things for me now. I'm going on cute dates with cute boys, looking cute. And it's all the way it should be.