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The Courage to Be Selfish

TaylorRuth
Nov 5 · 5 min read

Choosing to liberate ourselves regardless of why, when, or how is often slandered as a selfish act. Those doing the slandering aren’t wrong. It is selfish. But it’s nothing to be criticized or berated for. When we make the choice to go where we have never gone before it means that there is a lifetime of guilt, fears, frustrations, and other painful events that we, who are commiting said selfish act, have endured before daring to find something…

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Living in a tiny town in France as my home base to travel the world and write about it.

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