Trials in my Era is where the storyteller and the listener come to learn from one another. It’s a place where rejection doesn’t hurt as bad you think it will, where growing up feels as exciting as it does terrifying, where your cringiest moments are actually your most endearing, it’s where you’ll find the relationships that are hard and the ones that are laughably easy, where family and friends come to comfort you and sometimes hurt you, where mistakes are celebrated because they always lead to a good arc— it’s where you get to be a main character, the writer and the storyteller. This is where we all except that we are all pretty wingin’ it. Welcome to Trials in my era, a collection of essays from the storytellers of our generation about our trials and our  errors.