Writer's Block: One Thing I Did
Aug. 12th, 2010 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This is an odd question to me, because I thought I knew the answer at first... but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I was wrong.
There are so many things in my life that I've been told I could never do, that I wound up accomplishing anyway. I was told I could never get into vet school, I could never make it through, I could never practice veterinary medicine.
I was told I'd never get married, and that if I somehow did that I'd never be able to keep a husband. That I'd never have friends. That I'd never be loved.
But... none of these things were told to me by my friends. If anything, it was my friends who told me that the things I had been told were wrong and untrue, and that I was strong enough and good enough to do anything I set my mind to, and to be anything I wanted to. They believed I could do these things, even when I didn't. I think that's part of what friends *are*. People who try to break you down, and make you less than you are or can be, or try to convince you that you're not worthy of your dreams... they may be part of your life, or part of your social circle, but I don't know if I'd honestly call them friends.
This is an odd question to me, because I thought I knew the answer at first... but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I was wrong.
There are so many things in my life that I've been told I could never do, that I wound up accomplishing anyway. I was told I could never get into vet school, I could never make it through, I could never practice veterinary medicine.
I was told I'd never get married, and that if I somehow did that I'd never be able to keep a husband. That I'd never have friends. That I'd never be loved.
But... none of these things were told to me by my friends. If anything, it was my friends who told me that the things I had been told were wrong and untrue, and that I was strong enough and good enough to do anything I set my mind to, and to be anything I wanted to. They believed I could do these things, even when I didn't. I think that's part of what friends *are*. People who try to break you down, and make you less than you are or can be, or try to convince you that you're not worthy of your dreams... they may be part of your life, or part of your social circle, but I don't know if I'd honestly call them friends.
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Date: 2010-08-13 08:28 pm (UTC)However my never and your never are two woldly different things... my never was based on societal norms and ingrained patterns... your never seems to be very short-sighted and mean spirited... never love or be loved? Preposterous! No one who knows you, even as little as I do, all things considered, could ever think you were incapable of loving... and if you can love, you can be loved.
I'm damn glad you shook their predictions off, and proved them wonderfully wrong!