Narrative Authenticity: Breaking Free from the Shadows of Comparison

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I shouldn’t have begun reading other people’s essays.

“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
― Michel de Montaigne

Montaigne wrote in his essays how he felt about the way he wrote, not too great. In his essay A Consideration on Cicero, he tells you how he likes to write. He doesn’t like…