I wrote this essay, first and foremost, for myself. I spent so many years haunted by imposter syndrome, insecure with myself in each and every way. I took my broken pieces and created someone new; I learned to recognize the light and the beauty in who I am. It feels revolutionary to have any outlook on life when I spent so much time fighting against trauma to feel I deserved a future at all, so it feels radical to assert that a good future exists and is possible as optimistically as I do.