I considered quitting graduate school. I paid my ticket, I rode the ride. Right? Half the people I started with quit. I did not have to continue toward scholar. But something wouldn’t let me. Some deep wrestling match going on inside my rib house and gray matter. Some woman in me I’d never met. You know who she was? My intellect. When I opened the door and there she stood, with her sassy red reading glasses and fitted skirt and leather bookbag, I thought, who the hell are you? Crouching into a defensive posture and looking at her warily out of the corner of my eye. Watch out, woman. To which she replied, I’m Lidia. I have a desire toward language and knowledge that will blow your mind. Lidia Yuknavitch
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You can decide to quit, but if you choose to continue on, you will be successful. The greatest glory in life lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Something will always come along to make us rise up even higher than before. She will show up.

You will see her when you least expect it. She will help you through the tough times and keep you on track to where you need to be. If you do what you want to do, then she will come back again and again and again because that is what she does.

I was so excited when I met Lidia because I felt like someone finally understood me. She grasped how important it was for me to finish my master‒s degree and work toward my doctorate. And now here she is, still helping me out ten years later.

Source: The Chronology Of Water

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