The truth is that becoming is not glamorous.
It is not fun.
It requires diverging from the easy path, leaving the safe trajectory, risking everything, trying anything.
chiragushka
You probably wont know the day you meet someone who alters the course of your life forever.
But its going to happen anyway.
Youre going to blossom anyway because thats what you were designed to do.
All of that resistance, that fear, that denial?
Its part of the process.
Youre going to be happy and hurting and healing, all at the same time.
The truth is that becoming who we are is not a steady, linear ascent into happiness.
We dont grow in one direction only.
When our lives go bigger, they go outward.
We touch more, we feel more, we know more, we see more, we become more.
When we have more to lose, we get scared.
When we have to leave our comfort zones, we crave familiarity.
No accomplishment, no relationship, no city, no job excuses us from being human.
This doesnt mean we arent getting better.
This doesnt mean weve backpedaled, or that were regressing into our old habits.
Sometimes, the ability to feel things we havent thought of in years is the healing.
Sometimes, the willingness to cry at something simple and beautiful is the reckoning.
Sometimes, befriending ourselves is the most important step of all.
In nature, nothing transforms without breaking first.
Flowers cant bloom until theyre deeply, wholly rooted.
Seasons cant turn until the cold has come and killed off the remnants of the past.
Our greatest growth often comes just after weve looked our deepest fears in the eye.
Our most profound advancements are only made possible by the willingness to try, and to fail.
When we have nothing to lose, we have everything to gain.
You were becoming, even if you didnt know it at the time.
