By the time I was in third grade, I was making baby booties, crocheting ponchos, knitting fitted tops, braiding hair, even sewing little fabric dolls. My mom could hand sew, yes, but she didn’t knit, crochet, or braid. I had no older sisters to teach me. And yet… I just knew how.

I didn’t learn it in school. No tutorials. No Pinterest. Just raw, quiet creativity. A sense that I could figure it out, and I did.

And here’s what I’ve never really said before:
My younger sister was born at six and a half months, so tiny that even store-bought clothes didn’t fit her. But the baby booties I had made, for my dolls, fit her perfectly.

Think about that.

At age 8 or 9, I was already creating purposefully, even when I didn’t know it yet.
Not for an assignment. Not for applause. Just because something in me wanted to make something real.

That’s the mind I’m reconnecting with today, the one who didn’t overthink, didn’t wait for perfect conditions, and didn’t know she was “too young” to know anything.

🧠 That version of you? Still exists.
You’re more capable than you realize. Maybe your most brilliant ideas were there before the world taught you to second-guess them.

Return to that mind.

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