reborn

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From the way time flows, to the food I eat, to the people I love and meet: I am no longer poor. I am reborn. Sometimes this truth feels overbearing between the vast worlds of wealth and poverty, but may my values remain constant: live honestly, carry your weight, and stay grateful every step of the way. No matter what world you come from or are a part of now, know that life will test you and your values. It is how you hold them that will steer you on your right path. My values have steered me towards a life of freedom: freedom to dream, freedom from time constraints, freedom from financial trouble, and freedom from social and mental impoverishment.

It may take time to learn to live in this type of world, but I’ll remain comforted by my roots in that they brought me to where I’m at now. I also recognize that they make me different from the others and make it harder to fit into my new world, but with wealth I am becoming the person I always wanted to be: someone who gets to spend their time, take the slow route, and connect with others on the most beautiful things. Life doesn’t just come at me against my wishes, I invite it in. And I hope life never stops coming.

This week's playlist and other runarounds in my mind:

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Brand new- hippo campus

I was the first and last to realize the reality before me. Gifted in many ways, misguided in many others. For anyone who has always believed in me, I owe you my life. I will make it one day and could have never without you.

Salvation- the cranberries

the transition to salvation would be slow, as I am and as it goes, but I would go from the disturbed and the worry child to the example and posterchild.

“With great power comes great responsibility.”

I must work harder. After all, things aren’t the same. I have a shot at life, a purpose, love and wealth of a lifetime. I mustn't waste a moment of it, having already wasted enough. It was time for a new strategy, with what new power and flowers unfolded before me.