Diana
Who are you?
The first thing that comes to mind is I’m a lover. I’m very spiritual, intuitive, in my own head a lot- that can be a good and a bad thing. I’m an artist, I love music, I love dancing, I love my plant babies… I don’t know if I have really discovered who I am outside of friends and family-mainly due to people pleasing and being the one who takes on the role if/when my mother wasn’t available. I’m a comelona, I love to cook-I make a bomb ass moro and nobody can take that away from me. I love fashion, traveling, and nature. I deny that I love nature because I’m a city girl, but I love to see the mountains, nature, and the woods. In the city I’m used to skyscrapers and buildings all together. Here there’s greenery and view, add in my plant babies sprouting leaves and my heart melted.
Are you the black sheep?
My mom has literally called me the black sheep. My family and I gathered right before my graduation from UVM and in the conversation she stated that I was the black sheep because of the path I chose and how different I am from everyone else in the family. Many members in my mediate family are very up to date with pop culture, in the mix and I’m not. I’m very introverted and to myself; I have my moments but I love my own quality time. I don’t like to play with my energy, if it's saying “sal de aqui”? I’m out. My mindset has grown from the time that I’ve been away and continuously moving forward in healing and moving forward and recommending it to my peers, my family because let's heal lets grow.
What is your message to yourself?
I’m having a hard time answering that question because I’m in a certain mental stage in my life right now where what I'd say to myself right now is that we just have to go with the ebbs and flows of life and trust the process. I feel like I’m fighting my brain on bad days and not being present on good days because I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop so yea. i think as my dad says, “ponte pila”, that’s resonating a lot with me right now. And we’re here.
What is your message to the world?
We’re here. We’re good enough as we are. Stop flipping the narrative as if we’re not here. There’s a lot of back and forth and people aren’t letting people live in their existence and I don’t understand that. La gente si joden.
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