A Reflection

The poem below is one I wrote in February, in the beginning stages of creating this zine. I wrote this poem after attending an event with one of my student organizations that had a piñata. This exact poem never made it's way into my zine, but I found particularly inspiring while drafting my self-growth stage guidance. There is always something sweet to pick out of life, even if it means enduring some beating up to get that sweetness to finally come of it.

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Being able to have this conclusion about something as simple as a piñata showed me I was able to start thinking with that self-growth mindset. Even though I was in the thick of much earlier stages of my grief, I was able to find sweetness around me when I felt so much bitterness internally.  I was experiences stages out of order, I wasn't supposed to feel like I was growing yet. But, nothing about healing is linear. So if grieving isn't a straight path, maybe it's a piñata!