kcamp550

Turns out avoiding pain is painful. Raised by atheists, I understood early on that if my life was going to matter, it would be because I built it, shaped it around my values, my goals, my interests. And oh, was I pulled in by different interests! As a child, I thrived where creativity was allowed to spill over. Impulsive and averse to long-term planning, I grew into an eclectic, slightly chaotic right-brain thinker. I fully realized, probably first during my time as a middle school girl, that...