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Peyton Nill

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

2 poems·Since January 2015

I'm a 5' 6", 165 lb female rower. My BMI calls me overweight, but a calculator can't know that the weight is from the leg muscles that make my speed possible. That may sound vain, but I'm not saying it to brag - I'm saying it to encourage. If you don't let anything stop you, you will reap the rewards. I become exceptional in the face of the obstacle my diminutive height should have been. But I didn't let it hold me back. Don't let yourself regret what you could have done better. Don't let anything hold you back.