Dear Family

Dear family,

All I want to do is be able to open up to you and make you see why I did the switch. Why I chose Islam over Catholicism. I need someone to be there for me and help me. I need you all to accept me and say it’s okay. I need you to support me in what makes me truly happy and feel like myself. But instead you threaten me with getting kicked out of the house, with no money for univeristy, saying I would have lost all my morals and ethics, or say I can’t see the ones I love the most anymore. I never got the chance to tell you yet and it’s been months. And all I want to do is open how I feel up to you without you yelling at my face telling me it’s the biggest mistake I could ever make. I want to be able to pray in my room without feeling scared. I want to be able to walk around with a hijab and have my mom come shopping with me for new scarves. I want my dad to hug me and say it’s okay that this is what I want in life. But that only ever happens in movies.... not real life.

Sincerely,

Your daughter that cries everyday because shes dying to be who she wants