Hey everybody, Emily Abadi here coming to you from the AG studio.

You are listening to another installment of Five Minute Friday from Hurtle.

Man, I am here to like exhale and tell you that this week I started living my

life. I say that like ingest, but honestly it's true. I have, it's no secret.

If you've been listening to the show, if you've been following me on social media,

I have just been navigating a lot over the last few weeks, month, little over a

month now. And just feeling some kind of way about being in this season of

transition. And it really just started to get to me that I was letting my

anxiety and fear over what is going on with our world in the pandemic, like

letting this fear just completely dominate my being. And I kept saying things

like, well, after I go do this thing, then I'm going to live my life. After I go

do this thing, I'll go live my life. Like there were certain benchmark activities

like going to dinner at 11 Madison Park and like taking a certain trip or seeing

certain family and Christmas and being careful with that. Like I kept going

through all of these moments where I knew that I didn't want to have COVID for

that moment. And so I would just completely isolate myself. And finally, after

going to 11 Madison Park, God, one was this over a week and a half ago now, I made

the decision that I was going to live my life. And I'm laughing because if you're

on TikTok or maybe even just Instagram Reels, you've probably heard that

Kardashian reel that it's just them being like, I just love living my life. It's

Courtney and Kim and Chloe and they're all saying this all the time. I digress. So

what does living my life look like? Honestly, it's me just making plans. And I'm

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