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Breathe in. Breathe out. Don’t fall into despair. This is what Mae has learned to do when she loses a sense of reality. Of course, it was sparked by sudden anxiety but this time it was because she was heading to her first day at her first job. To not be nervous would be weird. But Mae wouldn’t let some damn shapes ruin it and so she told herself the same words.
Close your eyes. Try to breathe. Feel the ground beneath your feet. It’s still there. The world still turns around. And so she opened her eyes and watched as things morphed back into something more manageable. No longer were the days of panic when everything melded. No longer were the weeks of hiding from the outside world. She had grown up thanks to her friends and now she would take on the world. Now was the time to destroy the walls she’s built around herself.
She took another step forward towards her goals, towards her future, and reminded herself that she was indeed grounded.