God. Like I just. Don’t know where to begin with my feelings on TAZ Balance. I first started listening to the story in my senior year of college when things were really starting to go to shit in my life. But on those worst days, I’d pick up the podcast and lay in my dorm listening to this stupid ass beautiful story unfold around me. I found such hope and comfort in this story, that it kept me going when I thought I couldn’t go on any longer. TAZ Balance got me through all the ups and downs of that year, and the disastrous year that followed it.
It’s so unreal to think back to who I was when I first listened to this story and to think of where I am now all these years later, finishing the story again through the graphic novels. I’m a world away from the sad, scared, hopeless person I was then. And while I can’t attribute all of this growth to TAZ, I have to give it credit for helping me hang on a little longer during the days living felt too hard.
If I could go back and tell my younger self anything, it’d be to quote Istus: “You’re going to be amazing.”
I’m going to keep choosing joy, especially when things get hard. I hope we all do.
