no one cares about high school after you graduate.

so please don’t listen to teachers who don’t believe in you.

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for high school, i attended a quite rigorous all-girls academy. i remember one of my english teachers in particular because she did not believe in me.

see, no matter how closely i abided by her preferred essay structures and style of writing, she awarded me no better than a C every time.

i could never win with her.

she even went so far as to inform me that i would never excel in the art of writing, and she expressed her opinion that i should not pursue english as a major in college, which had been my plan from the beginning.

so i listened to her,

until i didn’t.

it’s been awhile since i sat in her classroom, but can you take a guess as to my profession? i am a writer and an editor,

and the most exquisite part of all is that i didn’t pursue an english major.

i dropped out of college and pursued my love of language instead.

and here i am, excelling in the art of writing. ☽