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For the last twelve months, I have lived in what author Jennifer Pastiloff calls “the beautiful middle.” Not the exciting beginning of a new dream, and not the glorious end where you finally "make it." Just the middle. The place where you put in the work, refresh your inbox one too many times, and wonder if you’re actually moving forward or just running in place. megha das
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If you had told me a year ago that I would be sitting here, writing this on a rainy Tuesday afternoon with a chai that has gone cold twice, I wouldn’t have believed you. The place where you put in the work,
The Art of Showing Up: Lessons from a Year of "Not Knowing"
Not because I didn’t want to be here. But because I had spent so long believing that success requires a perfect, linear map . Graduate. Get the job. Climb the ladder. Repeat.
I don't know what the next year holds. Maybe I'll go back to a corporate job. Maybe I'll write a book. Maybe I'll surprise myself and take a pottery class.