I was a princess in a tower

This is how I got out

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I was a princess in a tower for most of my life, and I never even knew it.

One day a few weeks ago I was browsing through Medium, as I am wont to do, trying to find a good piece to read amongst the endless lifehack-y articles about how to retrain your brain or why what everything I know about [insert random topic] is wrong.

[you can listen to this essay as audio here]

I found a piece titled “8 Life Lessons I’ve Learned at 40-Something That I Wish I’d Known at 20-Something” and started reading. Normally, I’m a bit skeptical of X things learned by X age (of course, excepting my brilliant compendium of 40 things I learned by 40, I’m totally different, of course), but something about this piece rang true, so I kept reading.