

It is not only healthy to cry but feel-good chemicals are released in the body whenever a person cries tears of sadness. Realizing to be able to get to where a person needs to be in life, they may shed a few tears. “I crying for me who no one ever hold before.” (Sapphire (Precious) 18).

Jones, so so sorry.” (Sapphire 17) When no one was there for her, that nurse was.

Only being 16 and having had a second child. Precious’ self-esteem may be have been low, due to the fact that her mother didn’t care about her life others parents did, but it was showing a little more and more each day. Life at home may have been hard but when she got to school, this was one of the few classes she looked forward to. It’s a place she feels comfortable being. I like maff class.”(Sapphire (Precious) 7). Being confronted about it wasn’t that much fun either. Not only that, but Precious was pregnant again. Facing her mother’s abuse everyday, and going to school and being picked on wasn’t easy. There is never a right time for self esteem to just pop up. Precious hasn’t realized the real definition of self esteem just yet.

Flawless, gorgeous, worthy, happy… But creating a place doesn’t make it effective. “I……, in my own world, I am so pretty, like a advertisement girl on commercial…(Sapphire (Precious) 35) Precious, in her head, created a world where she was who she wanted to be. She dreams of success, love, being happy, etc.
