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I truly believe that
Every trial we go through
Has a beginning and an end,
And for every failed Audition
To a college, there is an admission
To something greater in life—
This life! A gift where somehow our
Carbon-powered lifeforms are
A happy accident, creating life
From birth, over and over,
Creating chapter after
Chapter of new stories in
People’s lives.
COVID will be seen as
A chapter in many lives,
But not mine—it did not
Begin my chapter, and my
Next began midway into the
Pandemic.
Stop looking for your
Happily Ever After.
Live it instead.
Germinate your own
Endings and beginnings,
Around the roadblocks
You place or others place
For you—Engineer it!
Find your stride
Your strut
Your pace
And walk while you
Learn and think and
Breathe.
They say he who hesitates
Is lost. I say caution
Has its merits. Mind what
You say and do in this
Fairy Tale you are blessed
With—with your life—
Because like Cinderella or
Simpleton, you, too are a
Main Character.
Don’t stop writing your
Happy Ever After.