Hey everyone, Emily Abadi here bringing you another installment of Five at Minute Friday.

For those new to this show on Five Minute Friday, I share with you a story from my week,

thought provoking stuff that I've been making my way through. I offer up a thought prompt to take

you into the weekend or, you know, whenever you're listening to this. Then I share with you my

content picks, my highlights of the week and finishings off by answering a listener question. I want

to make note, please I would love to answer your question on the show. I will put a link in the show

notes just where you will find links to all the stuff I talk about in today's episode where you

can click on in, leave me a voicemail and perhaps hear your voice on an upcoming episode of Hurdle.

Today, I'm talking to you. I mean, I have been, oh my goodness, I have been, I've been really

anxious lately. I have been just for like the past week and a half waking up in the middle of

the night. And you know what, it brings me back to how I felt at the beginning of the pandemic.

And I think about this a lot, you know, how many times back in March and April and May,

and please June July August of 2020 did we say like 2020 was going to be my year.

And I think a lot of us, and I don't want to speak for all of you, but I know that I can say that

I was mourning a lot of things that hadn't happened yet. You know, so many things that I had been

plotting and planning. I felt like I had all this momentum. I was traveling a lot. I was doing

a lot of speaking engagements. And I was just really hopeful for what was to come. And when I say

that out loud, it makes me think about a lot of other things in my life where I felt the same way.

I mean, my last relationship, for example, when that ended, I felt like I had the rug pulled out

from under me. And at the time, you know, I was thinking a lot about the things that I thought

that we would maybe do together. Like I maybe thought about what life could look with like with him.

If, you know, we got to a point where we decided that we wanted to spend it together. I thought

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