Carrie Soto Is Back

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

People act like you can never forget your own name, but if you’re not paying attention, you can veer so incredibly far away from everything you know about yourself to the point where you stop recognizing what they call you.

When did winning become something I needed in order to survive? Something I did not enjoy having, so much as panic without?

Maybe it’s a lie that you have to keep doing what you have always done. That you have to be able to draw a straight line from how you acted yesterday to how you’ll act tomorrow. You don’t have to be consistent. You can change, I think. Just because you want to.

The downside of perfectionism is that you are so used to getting it right, you completely collapse when you get it wrong.