My Friends Are The Friends I've Had

My Grandmother Was German. She Didn't Teach Any Of Her Children German. She Really Wanted Them To Be American. And Now, She's Since Passed Away, I Get So Frustrated Sometimes. I'm Like, "oh, Oma, Why Didn't You Teach Your Kids German?" My Dad Would Have Spoken German To Me From Birth, And I Would Have Spoken German.

I Was Being Groomed To Be A Tennis Player For Sure. My Grandparents And Parents Realised I Had A Natural Athletic Ability And If I Was Forced To Do It, I Could Probably Do Well. But All I Wanted Was To Play Pretend.

My Mom Played Tennis For, Like, Six Hours A Day And Went To College On A Tennis Scholarship, Because That Was The Way She Could Go To School. So They Instilled In Me The Idea That You Have To Work Hard For The Things You Want In Life And Never Complain.

It's Hard To Remember When You Look At A Magazine Or When You Look At Pictures Of People, And You Forget That Those People Are People Like You. They Have Flaws And Insecurities. That's So Easy To Forget, Even For Me, As Somebody Who's Sometimes In Those Magazines.

You Have To Be Totally One Hundred Per Cent Committed To Act. I Do Value Everyone Else's Advice, But Ultimately I Have To Listen To Myself.