“Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success… whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.”
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Willow Smith is an anomaly. She is 15 and just came out with her first album (available on Spotify).
At age 13, she wrote and produced the first track in the playlist, Your Love. She writes music like she's been on the planet for decades. I had tickets to see her on Valentines Day, but I left the house too late, and only made it to see her chilling in the parking lot after the show in knee high glitter socks and converse.
I connect to how she is experiencing her adolescent years, filled with moments of insecurity and uncertainty. Her songs "Roll Up" and "Chinese," struck me in particular, and reminded me of growing up and being a female in this backward world.
It's hard to be young. The world telling you who and what is important, and none of it applies to you.
At 23, I still not feel doubts I felt a decade ago, ask questions I asked a decade ago.