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I Am An Emotional Creature- by Eve Ensler

I love being a girl. I can feel what you’re feeling as your feeling it inside the feeling before. I am an emorional creature. Things do not come to me as intellectual theories or hard-shaped ideas. they pulse through my organs and legs and burn up my ears. I know when your girlfriend’s really pissed off even though she appears to give you what you want. I know when a storm is coming. I can feel the invisible stirrings in the air. I can tell you he won’t call back. It’s a vibe I share. I am an emotional creature. I love that I do not take things lightly. Everything is intense to me. The way I walk in the street. The way my mother wakes me up. The way I hear bad news. The way it’s unbearable when I lose.

I am an emotional creature. I am connected to everything and everyone. I was born like that. Don’t you dare say all negative that it’s a teenage thing or it’s only because I’m a girl. These feelings make me better. They make me ready. They make me present. They make me strong.

I am an emotional creature. There is a particular way of knowing. It’s like the older women somehow forgot. I rejoice that it’s still in my body.

I know that lipstick means more then show. I know that boys feels super-insecure and so-called terrorists are made, not born. I know that one kiss can take away all my decision-making ability and sometimes, you know, it should.

This is not extreme. It’s a girl thing. What we would all be if the big door inside us flew open. Don’t tell me not to cry. To calm down. To not be so extreme. To be reasonable. I am an emotional creature. It’s how the earth got made. How the wind continues to pollinate. You don’t tell the Atlantic Ocean to behave.

I am an emotional creature. Why would you want to shut me down or turn me off? I am your remaining memory. I am connecting you to your source. Nothing’s been diluted. Nothing’s leaked out. I can take you back.

I love that I can feel the inside of the feelings in you, even if it stops my life, even if it hurts too much, or takes me off track, even if it breaks my heart. It makes me responsible. I am emotional. I am an emotional, devotional, incandotional creature. And I love, hear me, love love love being a girl.

All people really want to be is happy. We spend our lives trying to attain happiness. For some, money equals joy. For others, it is love. Some people follow passions and some follow people. But all paths lead to the pursuit of joy. Photography is my happiness, my passion, my love.

Sometimes I lose sight of why I’m here, of why I spend astronomical amounts of money on a school that is teaching me photography. Why I stay up all night writing essays and shooting assignments. Then I remember: I’m here because I love photography, because I need it, because with out it I lose who I am. I’m here because it means I get to wake up every morning and do the thing that I love most. I’m here pursuing my happiness.