I think the only time I really felt like I was starting life over was from jr. high to high school. All my best friends from the time were going to different high schools, and while I had classmates going to the same program as me, I wasn't really friends with them.
It was interesting, as I could practically reinvent myself, and there wasn't any legacy telling me who I should be or what to do. While I've made some other big transitions in life, (ie high school to college, starting a corporate job, going back to art school), I've always had friends or partners there for me to keep me grounded in what had gone before.
In that transition, I guess I sort of broke out of my other, more popular friends' shadows and started coming into my own. I ended up playing sports, dating people, running clubs, running for homecoming king - it wasn't the worst of times, and I think that experience of being able to really start being myself allowed me to create the foundation that lets me thrive today.
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Can you remember a moment in your life when you had life in yourself and it was wholly strange and new? Can you remember the moment when you stopped walking a path of someone else, and started cutting your own?
Write about that moment. And if you haven’t experienced it yet, let the miracle play out in your mind’s eye and write about that moment in your future.
(Author: Bridget Pilloud)
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