Growing Pains

[celeste_noelani]

I have to do this work. Nobody else can do it for me. Nobody else can say my words in the way I feel they need to be said.

I know that seems like another completely obvious realization. But there's the realization that you need to be somewhere, and then there are all the steps you need to take in order to make that happen. Steps like finding the friends who will help my tender heart find laughter in the face of my first stinging rejection. Looking for typos fifteen more times than I'd really like. (That one will be the death of me, I know it.) Finding my center so someone else's criticism can be left at their door when that is appropriate, and knowing when to open my door to let in critique no matter how painful it might seem.

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