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I will absolutely prevail.
October 20, 2022
Email to Adrian
Just follow your gut. You can’t go wrong following your gut. Never apologize more than once. Unless you didn’t mean it the first time. But never ever scrape and bow and feel bad like you did about being sent home from orientation at the — — hotel for not following dress code. You did nothing wrong. You made a mistake. You did not do it intentionally. And it did not cost you personally. You have come back around. You are redeemed.
Let that be a lesson. Never think that you are less than who you are. You are fabulous you are terrific you are perfect. Every single moment of your life is perfect. You are everything you can be every moment. And sometimes it’s not great. Sometimes your moments fall short. Big fucking deal. You get to re-create yourself every moment of your life. You can recover from your past. You can prevail. Quality of life is absolutely available to you if you are willing to do the work.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how Don values me so greatly. I am like gold to him. And sometimes I think if he knew me, if he saw me through all the years of my past, he wouldn’t feel that way about me. But the reality is, I am a new creation. I am a new person. I have done the fucking work. I have worked so fucking hard to make my life something meaningful. And that’s all he sees. All he…
