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Finding Me
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Self-Care Isn’t Selfish
By Betsy S. Franz
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
~Epictetus
I’ve been a lot of different people in my life. Not very many of them were really me.
Because I was such an insecure child, I became both a straight-A student and a sullen argumentative “hippie” to impress my parents and my peers at the same time. It was a pretty big task. All that skipping school to be with the cool kids made for some very long nights of make-up work to keep up my straight A’s. I did it, though. I’m sure there are still teachers out there who think I was the perfect student, and students that think I was the perfect radical. The real me was neither of those things.
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