Life changes.

Your journey on this Earth will ebb and flow and you have to hop in the water whether you’re ready to or not. These changes are exciting, scary, thrilling, challenging all at the same time. Conquering change has been one of the hardest tasks I’ve been given in my short twenty four years of life. Sounds dramatic, but it’s true! I’m terrible with big change.

Every time I go through a transitional stage of my life, I feel as though I fall short. I write this not out of negativity but to potentially reach out to others on this simple, yet profound concept.

Going to college, I was so excited for my future of what I had imagined. I would have freedom to do what I wanted, live on my own, eat whatever I wanted and much more. I was eighteen, naive, pure and what I was met with in my first semester was somewhat of a culture shock. The freedom I once fantasized about, now seemed like a burden. I had to mature much quicker than I had anticipated and learn juggling some real life tasks.

What a lot of people don’t mention is how many transitional stages a person will through in their 20s. In only four years I feel like a new human being. I’m no expert and I am always growing and learning, but as a person I have come a long way from two years ago. I’ve made more mistakes than I can count and I’ve been put in situations I never thought I’d recover from.

My point: we’ve all been there. I learned from my mistakes and I recovered a hundred thousand times over. I don’t know if whoever is reading this is Christian, but I believe God really moves me through these struggles to appreciate what’s on the other end. I’ve learned so much about myself and I’m finally back in a place where I know who I am as a human being! Isn’t that irreplaceable?? I just want whoever is reading this to understand, if you’re going through an uncomfortable time, just stay positive. Your life will change again and it’ll get so so much better! It’s the circle of life, just keep swimming 🙂 Thanks for reading!