Give Your Younger Self More Credit

Stop punishing yourself for mistakes you didn’t make

Photo by Bethany Legg on Unsplash

Taking the opportunity offered by several months of self-isolation to declutter, I found the copies I kept of my graduate work. The writing — and I — wasn’t as bad as I remember.

I also decided now is the time to downsize my massive crafts collection from the postgraduate jobless days when I…