Margot Magee
Joined October 2021
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Stop Pretending You Have It All
I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, which means I heard the statement, “You can be whatever you want when you grow up!” a lot. My parents had the best of intentions, but it still hurt when I grew up and realized this wasn’t actually true. It felt like I had somehow failed because I didn’t become the president, an astronaut, or the president of astronauts, when in fact I had been given an impossible standard to live up to. Because when someone says that you “can” do something, people usually believe that they “should” do that thing.
By Margot Magee2 years ago in Families