I am an embarrassment.

I am proud.

I am a failure.

I am a success.

I am stupid.

I have learned from my mistakes.

I am the girl they see. I am the vandal, the drinker, the liar. I am the flighty one. I am to be whispered about, to be hidden from view. I am scorned. I am ridiculed. I abandoned them.

I am the girl the world sees. I am the flight attendant, the wife, the mother-to-be. I am the successful one. I am nothing to be ashamed of. I am accepted. I am loved. I am free.

They see me as I was. The world sees me as I am.