I have always been who I am. I recognize myself in the 4-year-old girl who loved, even then, wearing black pants and a white shirt. I recognize me in the 17-year-old girl who couldn't wait to leave home and go off to college in Boston and a big world where I could do anything. (This is the age that I still secretly think I am!) I recognize myself as that super-charged woman in her tumultuous thirties trying to make sense of her marriage, a flourishing career as a TV reporter and critic, and three bouts with cancer.
I am still alive, still married, now a mom, and searching out my second career. So what is it that I would tell my younger self who is still very much me?
Eu ainda estou viva, ainda casada, agora mãe, e buscando minha segunda carreira. Então o que eu contaria a versão mais nova de mim?
Eu ainda estou viva, continuo casada, agora sou mãe, e procurando minha segunda carreira. Então o que é que eu iria dizer ao meu eu mais jovem que ainda continua muito em mim?
I know it has something to do with power. I have always felt that anything was possible, that I could do anything I set my mind to, and that I just had to figure out how. I knew this from the time I was a toddler, and sequestered myself in my bedroom determined not to leave until I had taught myself to tie my own shoes. I can still see myself trying different knots and twists and turns until I finally GOT IT!! I had such a feeling of power and accomplishment.
omissão no final: "Então o que eu contaria a versão mais nova de mim que ainda continua sendo muito eu?"