This Is What a Good Attitude Looks Like

From the vantage point of February, 2011:

My past looks like an amazing, ambrosial junk shop, piled high with beloved toys and delicious trinkets.

My present looks like a heart-stopping, breathtaking challenge that loves me back.

My future looks like a to-do list that is actually beginning to scroll forward, each action I take adding to a sense of increasing agency.

I’m not trying to feel like this. These aren’t affirmations, but honest depictions of the inside of my brain. After so many years of struggle and hell, something’s finally clicked. Where to go from here?

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