Dear 2018,
You and I have had quite a time together.
Remember when we first met, back in January? I was so unhappy. I was at that job I didn’t like, and I felt stuck and hopeless. I wanted to do more, to contribute, to feel valued, but I just didn’t. The job was wrong for me on so many levels, and I knew it, but I didn’t know how to fix it.
Then, maybe three or so months into our relationship, I had that epiphany: rather than try to force the job to be something it wasn’t, perhaps I should forge my own path.
So, I took a deep breath and did that thing I said I always wanted to do: I wrote. I completed a short story. Then I wrote another. And then another.
And then I started blogging. Remember back in June when I published my very first post on Medium?
I had zero followers and I was so terrified to hit “publish” that it took days for me to even tell anyone my work was online.
But then I talked about it, and a few friends read it and they thought it was cute. So, I published another…
