I have always been a perfectionist. That doesn’t make me different or unique. If anything, that makes me completely average. Many people, especially young women, wear perfectionism as a badge of honor. As I get older, I feel my perfectionism holding me back from a new beginning and dreams I want to accomplish. Whether this is from me caring too much about what everyone else thinks or being afraid to try something because I might be bad at it, I spend so much of my life on the sidelines watching people do what I wish I could do, avoiding a new beginning. I have always loved stories. I was an…