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When old dreams feel like failures

I found my old journal from high school where I wrote about wanting to be a writer and now I'm in marketing and I can't tell if I gave up on my dreams or just grew up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The gap between past aspirations and present reality creates a false narrative of betrayal.

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