Rediscovering Yourself

Margie Hord de Mendez
3 min readAug 18, 2021

At different stages in life

Photo by KAL VISUALS on Unsplash

You were so-and-so’s daughter. You were supposed to make your parents proud. You didn’t always do that.

You were the class nerd, the class athlete, the class clown. It was hard to break out of that mold. How well did anyone know you beneath the veneer?

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Margie Hord de Mendez

Canadian-Mexican linguist and translator, Margie loves to write about cross-cultural living, faith, family, aging gracefully… and more!