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What It Was, What It Is February, 2015

By: Pat LaPointe, 2/19/2015 12:14:40 PM

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Have you ever been at a point in your life where you want to make a change? I guess we all have. And I would also guess that we have had many well-meaning relatives and friends who offered advice and/or attempted to keep us from changing. Well maybe there have been some who were not so well-meaning, but have had their own agendas. Some fear that you’d fail. Some others may be threatened or feel that your decision might impact negatively on their relationship with you. Your change might take time away from them or may might make you too different than them.
This creates a conflict, especially for us women. We seem to be born with the “never do anything to make someone unhappy” gene. As a result, there are many of us who decide the choice will cause too much harm, be it real or imagined, and we maintain the status quo and abandon our dreams.
But what happens when we take the risk and go for what we desire? As scary as it might be we often find ourselves to be deeply gratified by and proud of the result. Barbara Irvin in her essay “A Graduate Story” tells us how she overcame obstacles to achieve something she truly desired. When you finish reading her essay, you’ll likely respond as I did with “You go girl”.

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