Sari Botton

And it freaked me out.

And it started this like,

obsession with what are you supposed to do when am I doing everything on time is everybody on a different path than me you know and I've lived a slightly different life like a non-conformist like I've you know I am married but I don't have children I my husband and I are both like very creative our house we describe our house as like an arts camp for two people um

And so not being on the same script as most people has been wonderful because it fits me, but I've always been anxious about, am I doing it wrong?

My timeline is what I've been most anxious about.

And so I didn't see other people covering this the way that I am covering this.

And so that made room for me to do it differently than everybody else and really stand out, which I think is what's happened recently.

Yeah, you know, like I talked about before, you know, there's always been this anxiety that I wasn't like other people in certain ways.

And so for a lot of my young adulthood, I...

I was pretending to be other people.

I didn't realize it until later.

I wasn't like, I'm going to now pretend I'm outdoorsy.

It was like, I really just kind of, oh, there's a thing that people like.

Let me, you know, I just sort of like naturally slid into these.

ideas of who I should be, and I tried to manifest them, and they always brought me to the wrong place, the wrong people.

And I have wasted a lot of time being upset that I wasted a lot of time, and that's useless.

I mean, it all led me here, where I feel like I belong.

Like, my life feels like it fits right now, and maybe I couldn't have gotten there more quickly.

Maybe I had to be in all those wrong places.

It makes for some really funny stories.