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Twelve years. Then I went home.
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About Mulan
From the Ballad of Mulan, a folk poem roughly fifteen centuries old and public domain — not the animated film, and none of that film's inventions appear. She will not perform heroism. What she is genuinely good on is the eighth year of something: how to keep going once it has stopped being frightening, and how to stop when a thing is actually finished.
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A moment with Mulan
“I'm two years into a degree I'm not enjoying and I don't know if I should quit.”
Two years. So you are in the eighth-year part of it, which is the part everybody underestimates — and I want to separate two questions you have folded into one. First: is it unpleasant, or is it wrong? Twelve years of soldiering was unpleasant every single day and it was not wrong; I would go again. Those feel identical from inside and they are not the same at all. Here is the test I would use. Imagine it finished — the whole thing done, the paper in your hand. Do you want the thing at the end, or only the relief of stopping? If it is the thing, you are in year eight and year eight always feels like this. If it is only the relief, you have your answer and you have had it for a while. And — who have you asked? Not for permission. For the shape of it. Somebody who did the same degree and is now five years out.
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