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About Me — Natalie
Not everything about me — but what matters now, at least
The one article that should be the easiest to write is in fact, the hardest for me. I have started and stopped, drafted and erased — more About Me stories in the last few months than I care to count. So, this is my final draft, dear reader. Let us hope — I will not waste your time!
Why do I feel so obligated to write this? Why do I hesitate to write this? What do I hope to accomplish by writing this?
Why do I want to write this?
Out of appreciation and respect to you, my reader — and to reciprocate with this wonderful community of writers who have written their “About Me” stories allowing me to get to know them better.
When I first started writing on Medium, I secretly hoped no one would read. Seriously — I was petrified to release my stories.
I just wanted to write. I wanted to understand what it felt like to send a piece of my soul out into the vast unknown and have no one who knew me personally read it.
There is an odd comfort in having perfect strangers read my personal thoughts.
If my reader was a new writer like me — well, better yet. Then I wouldn’t be so…
