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when "i can't" is removed from your vernacular, things begin to change. when you gravitate toward the people you consider true role models, in the sense that they are genuinely passionate about what they do, all social anxieties are wiped away. i've learned that if you truly want something, you have to ignore the cynical person that has grown and matured after years of self-deprication, and fly. you have to put blinders on when the former years of your life attempt to wash you with discouraging feedback and listen to what people are saying now. chances are, those ahead of you are weighed with the notion that they never took the right steps and were left behind in pessimistic dust. as far as i'm concerned, the period between coming home from new york and now does not exist. the years before that are gone but not forgotten. those years are important in shaping the story i have to tell, but there is nothing that took place in that time that will silence me.