I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: 'Continue my bookish examination o… - Cheryl Strayed

I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: ... Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.

So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.

I’d set out to hike the trail so that I could reflect upon my life, to think about everything that had broken me and make myself whole again.

Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their wounds. They wound their children in the same place.