For the reasons you outlined in this story, I stopped writing articles on this platform. Now, I tell stories. Telling stories does require vulnerability and I resisted it for a while. Until, well I found this magazine and responded to the call for submission "Have You Changed?" It was my most self-revealing story at the time.

Accordingly, my focus slowly shifted and I begin to write with intention and from that I understand why I write. I want to thank you and all involved with your publication.