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LIFE LESSONS | PSYCHOLOGY
Creating My Own Secret Sauce
The beauty that hides in plain sight
A handful of decisions have had major impacts on my life. For starters, I moved to Seattle from Philadelphia a few months before my 20th birthday, knowing only one person, a friend, who had moved there the year before me.
It’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. I fell deeply in love with Seattle.
However, I moved back to Philly shortly before I turned 21, which is when I cut off most of my hair. I’d never had short hair before and wanted to know what it was like. Immensely liberating!
I love caring for children and have gotten along with them very well, but by the time I was 22, I decided that I didn’t want to bear any children. I didn’t want to commit the time, energy, and money that it took to give birth and raise a child in the United States.
Another fantastic decision I’m glad I made early on.
Cutting my hair off and deciding not to have children made me feel incredibly free and more in tune with the free-spirit kind of person I was becoming.