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January 16 - January 20, 2025
From as early on as I remember, my mother would say to me, “Listen. The confines of this neighborhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself.�
doctor, or even a dentist ever again. She was never going to allow anyone to make a decision regarding her future care.
“Listen, there are going to be terrible things that happen in the world. And there’s nothing you can do about them. They are what they are. But your decision is going to have to be, ‘Do I allow those bad things to stunt my growth as a human being? Am I just going to sit down and die over it? Or am I going to try to figure out how to be better?� Which one do you think is a waste of time?�
This is not your problem. This is a look inside what’s lacking in their world, not yours. The only people that they know who are like you either work for them or are people they only know in passing. They aren’t having conversations with those people.�
