Interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Me: I used escapist fantasies as a coping mechanism to get through years of trauma and therefore never learned how to plan for a real life future
Alternatively: I went through periods of depression so frequent and intense that I never considered that I’d actually make it to my 20s so now I’m kinda just making it up as I go
This has been said many times before, but just in case somebody needed it today-
There’s always going to be someone you think is better than you. That doesn’t mean that your story doesn’t deserve to be told, nor that it won’t be great when it is.
