Sometimes we lock ourselves into boxes of our own making. We think because we have committed to a course that it would be somehow representative of failure if we don't see it through to completion. But just as perceptions of life, people and love shift, the commitments and decisions we make also shift. They need to shift. Everything is growth in action, nothing is stagnant.
What may have felt right before doesn't necessarily mean that it wasn't. Rather, it may have been that what we learned in the process of exploring the choice, was what made that choice correct at the time and not for its conclusion. Life is a continual shift on awareness; it's being able to avoid being bogged down by our own concern for doing it "correctly" or worried by the opinions of others looking on.
If we created it, then we can shift it. If we have learned, then we have become - no matter how that progress was processed. Painful development doesn't mean we were wrong, neither does joyful attainment mean that we have necessarily arrived into a higher plane of wholeness or living. Learning is learning no matter how it comes and is only compromised if we fail to tap into the feelings that would shift and then lead us to the next destination.
So I say, let go of what right looks like. Instead, ask yourself - What did I learn? How do I feel? What about myself is stronger and what did I find in allowing myself to be vulnerable?
Don't place so much consequence on exactness but trust in the awareness that will never fail you. Don't stare longingly at the fork in the road you may have passed by virtue of a mistaken sense of obligation. Put the top down, shake out your hair, flip a U-turn and head to the next bend in your metamorphosis.
It's waiting for you.
- This Carman Girl
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