Lessons in Chemistry
She strode to her easel, marker in hand. CHEMISTRY IS CHANGE, she wrote.
“Whenever you start doubting yourself,” she said, turning to the audience, “whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change – and change is what we’re chemically designed to do.
“So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself back. No more subscribing to others’ opinions of what you can and cannot achieve. And no more allowing anyone to pigeonhole you into useless categories of sex, race, economic status, and religion.
Do not allow yourself to lie dormant, ladies. Design your own future. When you go home today, ask yourself what you will change. And then get started.”
Elizabeth Zott, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
I loved that book!
Change is the only constant, so they say,
A ceaseless tide that washes dreams away.
Yet failures, steps to success, bid us stay,
Climbing life’s stairs, one stumble every day.
Your attitude determines your altitude,
A lofty claim for those who’d soar the sky.
But here below, where doubts and mud intrude,
We take back roads, get dirty, so remember to laugh when you want to cry .