Gracie J Chute
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The day Jaylee Sill’s life fell apart was the same day she first skinny dipped. In the shallow end of some obscure lake she went to for summer camp, she and her friends stripped off their suits and dove into the cold (and probably unsanitary) water with glow sticks on their wrists, giggling. Jaylee felt free, for a moment in the murky water, free from the weights that held her down- whatever weight a 14 year old feels anyway. She stood there, in the dark, water rushing all around, and she dove down and down and down.
By Gracie J Chute4 years ago in Fiction
The Canadian city nobody cares about
In grade 10 math, we learned the jarring fact that if a person spent 10 years walking and ended up in exactly the same spot he started, then scientifically speaking, no work had been done. No progress had been made according to the universe. I attended my tenth grade across the street from the hospital I was born in. Years later, I moved in down the street from it.
By Gracie J Chute5 years ago in Families
Freeing myself from my past
A few weeks before the end of 2020, I was working my day job when one of my coworkers asked what my New Years Resolution was. I told him, "I'm sick of resolutions. I'm sick of setting goals. There’s no point.” For years I'd hopped on the bandwagon and started each new year with a list of personal demands and the collective battle cry, "This is my year.” Each year, the inevitable failure of these unrealistic resolutions only made me feel worse. I’d never lost the 30 pounds, gone for a run every morning, or even kept my room clean. I'd officially accepted defeat.
By Gracie J Chute5 years ago in Motivation
