I'd read the verse many times before - it didn't suggest "Poll your friends and know" or "Scour the internet and know or "Read books by experts and know". It suggested a different approach: Just. Stop.
StopMovingStopTalkingStopSearchingStopPanickingStopFlailing.
If you just stop doing, you'll start knowing.
I am here to keep becoming truer, more beautiful versions of myself again and again forever. To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution. Whether I like it or not, pain is the fuel of revolution. Everything I need to become the woman I meant to …
My boiling point was the moment Abby stepped through that doorway. I looked at her, and I could no longer contain myself. I lost control. Fire-red and golden, rolling bubbles of pain and love and longing filled me, brought me to my feet, threw my arms open wide, insisting: There. …