- Passion trumps fear.
In hindsight, I realized that I was
more qualified for that job than I thought.
I’m a big sister, which means I’m
naturally bossy. I love throwing parties,
and I can talk to anyone, even seventy-
six-year-old Russian men who don’t
speak English and are freaking out
because they can’t find their tights.
I went on to do many more things that
I was “unqualified” for, but I also
wasted plenty of time pretending I
wasn’t ready to do some other things I
really wanted to do. And, shockingly, the
times I jumped in and went for it were
way more fun than the than the times I