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A note from Dr. Hendrix
This poem traces how I fixated on my high school years, spun myths about them, and let that imagined past quietly distort my present — until I finally went back and faced it. I wrote it because the stories we will not stop telling about our youth can hold us hostage, and setting one down is a real kind of freedom.
— Dr. Roger Hendrix · We share these stories so you can know the family behind GreenTeaHP.
I know the problem of fixation
I fixed onto my high school years
I created myths about those years
My myths created an unfulfilled past
My unfulfilled past distorted my present
I became a distortion of myself
I decided to revisit those years
I faced my high school past
My fixation began to let go
My myths began to fall apart
My distortion cleared up
I began to see myself
I started to be myself
I am myself