Flip the Script.

More is Not Always More.

Mary Kate Parrish
Catharsis Chronicles
2 min readMay 22, 2024

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Photo by Florian Klauer on Unsplash

You’re only as stuck as you want to be

Be your own director

Cast your own roles

Recast them accordingly

Free yourself from wasted energy

Fire the teachers

There’s no tenure to your life

Nobody can tell you what to do

Refuse your self-inflicted bystander apathy

You have to face it all headfirst —

each and every treacherous calamity

Your most petrifying reality

They all may illegally hack your life

But he can’t take all the work she has done

No one can write your autobiography but you

Acknowledge all of the wrong plays

You made ginormous mistakes

And now they were following you all along

Be your own agent

Fire pistols back and stand up to defeat

Play business like its Battleship

Take the time to redefine your role and trajectory

Revise the script and rewrite it till you adore the ending

Or, better yet

Have no ending

Maximize your potential

Take what you have and make the most of it

When you gain power over your one, precious life, as Mary Oliver said

Never again let other options affect you

You’re only as stuck as you want to be

Only you are responsible for yourself

Pick up those feet

Jump out of the quicksand

Remove your safety net, you don’t need it

Have faith in yourself

Be your source of reality

That weeping willow will never lose its leaves

Walk towards the sun, always!!!

It is only when you choose your ending

That you know you’ve only just begun

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Mary Kate Parrish
Catharsis Chronicles

Empath. Lover. Intuit. Marketer. Writer. Pisces. Insomniac. Over-thinker. Goal Chaser. Survivor. Believer. On a Quest to Write & Travel.