Be your own hero.

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No one’s coming to save you.

Save yourself.

Those words are both liberating and terrifying. Because I don’t know about you, but, from time to time (most of the time) I wish a hero would swoop in and rescue me.

But in my heart, in my very bones, that’s not what I want even as I say I want it. What I want, what I really want, deep down and on the surface, what I want in every…