Candace Taylor
Stories (2/0)
To All the People That Changed Me
This is to all the people that have changed me. You know who you are. This goes back to when I was a young girl. I was innocent and pure. I had the whole world ahead of me. You changed that. This is for when you promised we'd be best friends forever. Then you left me. This is for you dad, the one man I always counted on. You changed that when you walked out. This is for the love of my life. You changed my world in so many beautiful ways. Sad ways too. You forever changed my life. This is to the ones that try every day to encourage me to be the best that I can be. And lastly, this is to me. To the girl that has always been dealt a bad hand yet always risen above. I love all of you. If it wasn't for each and every one of you, I wouldn't have the strength I have today. I wouldn't be the woman I am today. Finally, this is to God. My creator. You created me to be an ever changing human and I can't thank you enough for that.
By Candace Taylor5 years ago in Poets
Living with Mental Illness
There is a stigma that comes with mental illness. It is looked down on, joked about, and quite often, it's dismissed. Believe it or not, mental illness is more common than you might think. One in four adults are affected by mental illness. That is 61,500,000 people in a given year. Not only is it common, it also does not discriminate. You see people on social media or at school or work and you think they have everything figured out, that because they're smiling and laughing or because they have a million friends, they're happy and everything is okay. Wrong. I'm here to tell you, that is all just a cover up.
By Candace Taylor6 years ago in Psyche