As I worked past the mid point in Maya’s graduation gift book, I wanted to pause and write this simple reminder. All too often we spend our days working, striving, accomplishing and forget to admire the people we are becoming in the process. Which also reminds us that life is a process, one that we live out each and every day we are still breathing.
Think about who you were at eighteen. I mean pause for a moment and REALLY think about who you were at that point in your life…
Now think about who you are today, no matter how much time has passed since you were eighteen…
Chances are the person you are now may not be exactly the person you imagined you would become. Hopefully it’s better, different, more diverse and more experienced in how the world works. More joyful, more fulfilled, and maybe even living in a different way, place or process than your eighteen year old self could have imagined. Maybe you are more creative, more polished, perhaps less worried about being polished, or maybe very well read. If you had told me at eighteen that I would live in rural Georgia with my husband, next door to my brother (who I never got along with) and my Mother…I would have called you a koo-koo head! How thankful I am that my limited sight of eighteen years did not prevent me from building and living a great adventure!
So, let me encourage you to take a long look in the mirror. Forget the physical elements of your appearance. Think instead on the life you live now AND where you still want to go. Be thankful for all you have accomplished and remember that the process of living means nothing turns out exactly as we planned. Give thanks for the lessons you have learned, and look forward to many more. Take a good long look and admire who you are and who you are becoming.
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