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How I pulled myself out of a self-destruction, doom, and gloom rut, and you can too

When a friend has your best interest at heart, and gives advice, listen

Sara Burdick
6 min readJul 15, 2023
Tbilisi, Georgia

¨All the Ajax in the world ain’t gonna clean your dirty laundry.¨ Carrie Underwood.

Oh lordy, ain’t that the truth!

Apparently, my Spotify playlist was playlist labeled ¨scorned¨. I definitely did not make it, but I usually find a song I want and play the entire playlist.

No, I am not feeling scorned, and usually, that is not a feeling that I prefer to stay in, but the songs are pumping me up. I should change the name to Scorned once but let’s dance it out.

Which I might have done in the hostel kitchen. It’s a country playlist, in case you are wondering.

I have been a country music fan since I was born, and I am not ashamed, even when I meet foreigners, and they ask all snarky:

¨so you like country western? ¨

Which makes me laugh when they call country western. I say yes; I like country music. Only people not from the US call it the Country Western, and my grandfather.

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Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

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