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How Reading Medium Saved My Life
I’ve learned more in the past 90 days than over a dozen years of formal education. Let me share my journey and how reading Medium has raised my life to an awareness I couldn’t have imagined.
One thing I value pretty highly is my life. Without my life, I wouldn’t be able to eat chocolate chip donuts on Sunday, appreciate the warmth from a baby’s giggle, or appreciate Taylor Swift's angelic voice. Being alive helps me pay my rent, buy overpriced food at the grocery store, and watch Ray Gun Olympic breakdancing replay videos on YouTube.
A few months ago, my highly valued life was struggling. I was in my first year of a divorce, struggling at a new job and dealing with children who, surprisingly, weren’t behaving perfectly. My dating profile was barely getting noticed even though it was 99% complete. And men I used to be friends with have these things called wives, preventing them from going out and having too much fun.
I was definitely in a funk. Then things got really bad. I ran out of acceptable programming to watch on all of my streaming channels-Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+, Max (formerly HBO), Showtime, Starz, and others, leaving me in a vulnerable spot where I might have to think. Luckily, I opened my…
