Thank you for joining me in my journey to build something beautiful.
💕 Elle
The transition between being a student whose parents more or less paid for everything to being an “adult” who had to start figuring it out for herself really sucked. Things like making doctor’s appointments gave me anxiety. The concept of filing my taxes for the first time overwhelmed me, and one of my worst fears was that my car would break down on the side of the road and not only would I not know what to do at the time, but I’d be left without a car and forced to navigate the Phoenix bus system. The horror.
Hours were spent at work trying to distract myself from how miserable I was by imagining myself in a career that I loved; one that was fulfilling and paid me enough to live a decent life. That version of myself was confident and outgoing. She was funny, stylish and didn’t know the meaning of the word anxiety because nothing ever phased her. She wasn’t so much my alter ego, but rather who I wanted to be when I grew up.
Today I view Elle differently. Her life is actually pretty similar to what I dreamed, but the path to get there was rough, and because of that I try to treat her (myself) with a ton of love and compassion.
Elle is forever a work in progress. She is still anxious, but now she’s better at pushing through it. She still dislikes her job sometimes, but she has other things that fulfill her.
In short, she’s come a long way,
BUT SHE’S STILL BUILDING.
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