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Jeff Ikler's avatar

Beautiful writing. "...what I didn’t realize then was how deeply I needed that in-between, to belong to no one except my closest family for a while. It was time to shed a version of myself I had outgrown."

I love the concept of "in-between." It gives us the license not to know and to figure things out on an untimed timetable. It's like walking into a railroad station, looking up at the schedule, and seeing it read, "Whenever you're ready."

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Hannah Bratterud's avatar

Yes! "Whenever you're ready" – for the next step, a slice of clarity, a new vision of the future. As uncomfortable as it may seem in the moment, we often need the in between before we are ready for those things.

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