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    Don’t Hit the Brakes!

    Today, I want to share my little blogging space with the writing community, and any creatives reading this. Sometimes I think about how much different things could have potentially been for me if only I had had the right guidance. I’ve been open about how college failed me in that area; how I trusted a system which priority, I now know, is to make the most money they can out of each student, with your academic ambitions coming last. But that’s a whole other blog post (stay tuned for that!). So I wanted to send a reminder to aspiring writers out there to just DO it. This is not a…

  • The Fear of Being Stuck

    The fear of being stuck in life… It’s like looking around and just knowing, you were born to do more; you can do more than this. It’s like seeing the end of the day every single day, knowing you can’t but wishing you could change the sunset’s hues. It’s like pushing against a brick wall ‘til your bones crack, when you haven’t even moved. It’s like force-feeding yourself because you know that’s all there is. It’s learning to be patient with yourself and the custom-made world we live in. It’s being mega careful with which doors you exit and which ones you enter through. The fear of being stuck in…