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“no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, "no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.”

7/2/26

I did it.

After 20 years, I sang in public. It feels so wild to think I waited so long, silly. Im so proud of myself, Paul helped me, as usual. I don’t think he even thinks he did but, it’s true.

Singing was always so complicated for me, I didn’t care about being good or great, being off key or anything. It is so personal and special to me. My mom always gave me a hard time about it which is probably why I resisted it for so long. I didn’t want to share, maybe it’s selfish, who cares.

Anyway, I did it. And I’ll do it again! That’s a threat.

I feel so much less burdened by relationships, I don’t know what changed in the last three days. I feel free, free of everything that felt like weight. Stifled, suffocating insecurity or whatever teenage stuff I held on to. Maybe it was the full moon, maybe I grew. Maybe both.

Here I am.

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“no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, “no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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