Described as Notes de tête, Le Prologue came from a place of pain in my life. Like many women, growing up can be difficult, especially when it comes to the relationship you have with your body and your appearance.
Society tells us, directly or indirectly, that this is one of the most important things about us. Beauty ads and social media implicitly whisper: "If you're not pretty, you are nothing."
If we are really honest with ourselves, I think we’ve all experienced that deep self-loathing, particularly during our teenage years.
But what I’ve noticed is that the more you grow up, and the more you grow into yourself during your 20s, the more you reclaim who you are. For me, it was about finding that sense of freedom I used to feel as a child.
Today, I can finally say that I feel free in every area of my life, but it hasn’t always been this way. It took time to stop comparing myself to others and to stop trying to control everything around me.
It was so difficult at first, so frustrating. But then came a turning point, where I realized that the more I tried to control or limit what I was experiencing, the more I cut myself off from the world around me.
A sort of dissociation between what I could actually experience and what I was trapped in, simply because I didn't understand, or didn't want to see, that the possibilities were infinite. What I once judged to be the climax of my dreams was, in reality, just the beginning of my true potential.
And that's where I began to truly exist.