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On Why Being An Inspiration is Such Bullshit
And why does my petunia smell like bug spray?
I hear this an awful lot: “Oh Iva, you are such an inspiration!”
Am I now?
I also hear this a lot: “Because of you I am going to start changing my life”
Are you now?
Wait! What about my petunia?
First of all, I ain’t talking about the flower here. Figure it out. We’ll get to my petunia a bit later and yes, it does tie in to the story, somehow.
I had a rough life
I really did. My childhood sucked, my teen years were even worse and then as I became an adult I made an awful lot of really bad fucking decisions, hence my adult life sucked too.
A lot.
I endured a shit ton of abuse, physically, emotionally, mentally and verbally. I’ll even admit, some I totally could have avoided but didn’t.
I was in and out of shitty relationships, in and out of college, and jobs and lived through not one, but two bankruptcies.
Yup, it’s suffice to say, my life was tough.
Look at me now!!
So after I hit rock bottom back in 2012 something had to give. I totally reinvented my life and me! I…
