We forget to celebrate how far weve come.
Did you imagine youd have this job, these friends, this apartment?
Chances are, you saw your life a certain way.
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Maybe your dream was to start a business, to be surrounded by success.
Maybe your dream was to have a family, to find that special person and settle down.
And maybe you had it all figured out: college, job, love, self-love.
Maybe you had all these plansand the universe thought otherwise.
Ive always loved order, preparation, making sense of the world around me.
Having a plan was the best way for me to look forward.
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I think that the world puts so much focus on preparation.
In school were fed the lies that if we dont do exceedingly well, we wont make waves.
But that wasnt true.
(And none of those scenarios worked out, anyways).
I poured the entirety of my soul into a relationship only to discover he wasnt truly the one.
I got my heart broken, only to findmyselfin the healing process.
None of these moments were on the map; I hadnt anticipated them coming.
And yet I became the person I am today because of them.
And sure, I fought like hell against all that.
Sure, I thought my world was completely crumbling apart a whole bunch of times.
But in those unknowns, I rebuilt.
In all those unplanned moments that I discovered (and learned to love) myself.
I have spent so much of my life trying to figure everything out (I still do this!)
But Icancontrol how I grow from it.I used to have a roadmap, a timeline if you will.
But I threw that damn thing away.
And continue forward,welcoming what comes.
