The Upside of Falling Down

by Rebekah Crane

I’m a girl with a bad tattoo whose only memory is waking up in a hospital bed with a roomful of strangers.

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When a person gets used to failure, it becomes much less scary. A person will walk into fire, knowing full well she’ll get burned, but it doesn’t hurt as much. When you’re prepared for pain, pain loses power.

AND THE COFFEE’S OUT

“That’s the thing with fear—conquer it, and you find freedom.”

“It’s the upside of falling down,” Kieran says. “It’s why you jump in the first place . . . for that moment.”

Run from or run toward . . . He’s right. It is subjective. This is my opportunity to decide how I want to live. And tomorrow is, too. Each day, another decision. There is no running from that.

“You can’t be overwhelmed by the what-ifs, or you’ll miss out on the best part.”

I’d set out to find a way home, but what I’m finding is that maybe home isn’t where I thought it was.

NOOOO😭😭😭

THATS MY GIRL

Sometimes letting go is braver than holding on until you break.

Sometimes what we thought we’d never want becomes the only thing we desperately need.”

“I knew it couldn’t be that easy. Dares never are.”

I am strong—I feel that now down to my core.

We love this glow up

Past the fear is freedom,

Am I ready? Am I ready to let go? Is that even possible? But the alternative is to hold on, letting fear rule my life, walking every day with a shadow over me, so that every time I look in the mirror, a piece of me is afraid of what I see. It’s allowing my past to rule my future. I don’t want to live like that.

“But with you . . . I feel like a new person. Like someone who has a life to look forward to, not just a past haunting her.”

🥺🥺🥺

BRUH

WAIT

I KNEW IT

I KNEW IT

Love is never safe, but it’s the truth.

“Teeny-tiny girls grow up to be the mightiest of creatures.”