Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time

by Angela Brown

If I’d keep evolving or fall back into my old routine. You see, it was up to me. That was the thing I’d only recently come to understand: that we aren’t born with one life, but with two. The life we live before we understand loss, and the one we finally live once we realize that, despite our many efforts, our life will ultimately end.

Sometimes, you just have to sit quietly with your grief and give it room to breathe. You have to acknowledge that it is a part of you, and that it probably always will be. “She

To anyone who has a goal she keeps putting off. Stop waiting. There is no perfect time. No perfect circumstance. The time will pass anyway. Don’t put your dream off anymore. You owe it to yourself to write your own story. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Photo © 2023 Sylvie Rosokoff