Hello, so Rachel is confident and many people want her too change. I want her to have a spine. I also need a catharsis. I own nothing, but I hope you enjoy.
Sami
Rachel Berry was confused. Men often wanted something from her, but she rarely wanted something from them. What they gave her she already had.
Finn wanted devotion in exchange for his attention. Yet she often gathered the attentions of others with ease, so his was not needed.
Noah wanted to piss Finn off in exchange for….well pissing Finn off. Yet Puck naturally pissed Finn off and Rachel's unwavering confidence did the same.
Jesse wanted fame and glory in exchange for acceptance and understanding. Yet Rachel already accepted who she was and understood herself quite well.
Sure many would use sex and love as a means of the reasons why a woman needed a man. Yet she was very adroit with the means to satisfy herself. As for love, well if it wasn't unconditional then it was useless. She didn't want to jump through hoops for love, she wanted to stay on her two feet.
Her own two feet. She was fine on her own two feet and she didn't want to stand in any other way.
She didn't want to stare at someone all day in the hope that they would notice.
She didn't want to kiss someone for bad intentions.
She didn't want to feign insecurities when she had none.
She didn't like the feeling of being in a relationship.
It was needy.
It was lusty.
It was doubtful.
Rachel Berry was a lot of things, but she hated being any of those things. It was insulting.
Sure, she wasn't the first pick when it came to dating. Maybe she was last. But she was herself.
Loud, theatrical, emotional, dressing as herself, and ambitious.
She had her ambitions, something a man would never understand, she knew if she could get her dreams fulfilled, whether it be her dream to win a Tony or her dream to get her laundry completely finished my eight o'clock, she would be happy.
She never saw a man standing next to her when her dreams were accomplished because she knew that they were her's.
No man would ever beat her dreams.
The men she had known always wanted too much and she didn't want to give because the exchange was unfair.
They got a lot while she received what she already had.
She was good on her own.
She was perfect on her own.
She was her dreams and everything needed to accomplish them.
She was herself with no consequences, she didn't care for disdain, the looks, or the words.
Others just weren't happy with themselves.
And the only reason why Rachel Berry took the slushies with ease.
Because she was herself.
She was proud of who she was.
No man could ever top that.