Soie.

Musings of a twenty something year old.

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I just stepped out of the doctor's office, tears balancing in my eyes. I reach the elevator where people are standing, and I cannot let them see me cry. So deep breaths, and carry it well without showing. This has been the theme of my life lately.

Kiara
Kiara

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PART 3: Finding Home Within: The Journey Back to Myself

I told my therapist about you. 'What was the most inconsistent relationship you had with a parental figure?' she asked. Oops. Here I was thinking it's love and butterflies, not realising I was dancing with ghosts from my past.

Kiara
Kiara
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PART 2: When Winter Came: Chasing Warmth in All the Wrong Places

And winter came. I soon realized I was craving more than you could give me. This situation tingled an itch I've carried for so long—the want to be loved, heard, seen. But my brain was used to searching for it in places I couldn't get it.

Kiara
Kiara
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PART 1: Chronicles of Loving Someone Who Was Never Mine

Suriel Hess was onto something when he said, "Over and over again the lesson I have to learn is it's not love but it's still something, it's enough to keep me from running from you."

Kiara
Kiara