It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. -Alan Cohen
I'm thinking of taking this quote and posting it all over my house, car, office...just anywhere where I can see it on a regular basis.
I have gone through so many changes over the past few months; I've released the familiar because there was no meaning in it for me any longer. And I was unprepared for how much hurt and pain I would go through losing something that I didn't care about anymore. I have turned into a person who I don't recognize. I'm mean and snarky to a person who I swore I'd never be that way with. Because of hurt feelings and the inability to think I've ever done wrong.
But today I'm letting go. I am choosing to make a change in myself, to stop trying to hold onto pieces of a life that I was done with. People grow apart and change if we don't put in the work it takes to change in the same direction. And I didn't put in the work. But I'll not let that happen again. I've embraced the new, and I've got plenty of adventure ahead of me!


