On Growing Beyond Adulthood

Adults can make bad decisions with good intentions.  Adults can be hypocrites.  Adults can be wrong.  As a child, the romantic understanding I had of what life is for the human being was not ignorant of these things; rather, their importance was dimmed relative to that of who I might become.  I was starstruck by my own future.

A Little Pep-Talk to the Self

It is often that I need to remind myself that I am worthy of happiness and that my being is not mutually exclusive from success.  After pulling myself from my graduate program, I have felt an almost constant urge to do more, to push myself harder, to be better than I am. Which sounds great,…