Show Up

None of us in my family attended our own graduations because we knew our parents wouldn't show up. "We're not the kind of parents who go to parents weekend," my mother said on the phone. It has taken me a long time to pull out that weed from my garden. When I refuse to open Christmas gifts, refuse to finish a book, refuse to complete something because I fear the rejection and judgement of completion, I know the weed is still there.