Stressed and overwhelmed I once cried over the phone to a girlfriend of mine something to the effect of, “why am I always struggling and fighting to keep things together, I swear I fell like I’m doomed for failure.” My girlfriend, a shining star in my life, didn’t miss a beat; her response stopped my tears short. She told me something very close to this: “Keisha, you take risks in life. You don’t sit by the wayside waiting for things to happen and because you put yourself out there you are bound to find obstacles of all kinds along the way with big wins and big disappointments.” [...]













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