A Strange New World

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You were dropped into a world you may not even know existed or one you had only heard of. Maybe you knew someone there but knew nothing about this place. It was not any place you ever wanted to visit much less live.

You are completely unprepared. It's new. It's different. New language. New words. New ways of doing things. How does everyone survive here is something you can help but wonder as you feel like you are drowning. Nothing makes sense. You are scared and feel alone. No one understands. The ones that also live here do, but they are all at a different place. They've almost forgotten what it was like to be new. They have systems worked out. You feel judged and out of your depth. They make you doubt everything you were told. They tell you to trust yourself, but you don't trust anything right now. Definitely not yourself. They tell you it gets easier. You don't see any single way that is possible.

I won't promise it gets easier. The expected knowledge is the same. BUT it will seem easier. With time, you will get there. You will speak the new language(s) as fluently as anyone else. You will learn to trust yourself. You will become the expert and champion. Just like everyone else is.

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