Feeling two different really big feelings at the same time can feel foreign, especially if doing that is something you've been trying to relearn after years of living in extremes.
I wrote this piece when I realized we were actually leaving Texas -- and my heart was breaking a little bit because of it.
Dichotomy is one of those words that once I learned it (which was like, 4 years ago), I felt like I used it all the time because it had been the word I had been searching for to describe how I felt throughout my life.
Two things at ones. Outside of the box. Against the grain. Not willing to concede. A big ol’ bundle of ‘wtf-ness is life.’
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