“Was that all I would be? Sad and lonely? Forever?
Had I doomed myself by daring to think about this part of me?
Was I just accepting a life of solitude?
As soon as those questions hit me, they opened the floodgate to all the doubts I thought I’d been fighting off.
Maybe it was all just a phase.
Maybe this was giving up.
Maybe I should keep trying.
Maybe, maybe, maybe.”