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Jamal Robinson's avatar

Powerful piece Evan!

I’m a lover of analogies and appreciate the way you weaved together your journey, baseball and the principles required to be oneself in both.

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mark's avatar

So glad I found your blog! I enjoyed reading this and I'll carry that quote(about the curveball) with me...

So many people talk about "becoming", as if growth and/or enlightenment or progression is *only* a process of addition, when it's actually about BEING you(generic you, i.e. all of us)...and often involves LOTS of subtraction of unworkable and even toxic models of identity and behavior...Does that make sense?

At 65, I feel like my struggle has been to see and understand who I actually am and to simply give myself the freedom to BE. The traumas, the scripts, the expectations(personal and/or societal), the unexamined assumptions and models of behavior I have internalized...have ended up being reminders to NOT make myself literally sick(physically, emotionally, spiritually), once I became aware of them, by trying to squeeze myself into them.

You, me...All of us...are "enough"...and more...without having to be taller or thinner or heavier or more...whatever...

Thanks for your words, carry on👍🏽🙏🏽

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