The year is 2016
On this trend, what was happening then, and feeling lost now. Plus, the first poem I've written in a long time.
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There’s a trend on Instagram right now where people are posting photos from 2016 and saying a bit about who they were then and what was going on. I’m not sure why it’s happening this year, but since I’ve already been thinking a lot about how this year marks ten years (!) since I left my career in advertising to do this, I decided to partake.
Searching my photos from 2016 choked me up. The first one in the carousel I posted (above) is from the first-ever yoga workshop I taught, at South Boston Yoga, just a month after I gave my notice. I was terrified, but also, somehow, sure? I knew I was exactly where I was supposed to be. I knew I’d make it. I didn’t know how or exactly what that would look like, but I knew.
I needed to revisit that place inside me—to touch that again, remember, feel her inside me.
Because for a while now, I’ve felt unsure about what I’m doing. Even now, I’m hesitating to type. Writing and deleting. Second-guessing myself. I said to a writer friend the other day, for the first time, I’m scared. I’m scared I can’t do this book. What if I can’t actually do it?
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