By Lucy Grimwade (Oct 6th 2023)
My favourite passage from the book 'What I know for sure' by Orpah Winfrey is:
"Time is fleeting. Those of you with children are ever cognizant of this fact - because your children keep growing out of and into themselves. The goal for all of us is to keep growing out of ourselves, too, evolving to our best possible lives."
(If you have the book, turn to page 126 to continuing reading. I do add some other quotes from this passage throughout this article).
Reflect
With less than 3 months left of this year, I found myself in position of reflecting over this concept of growing out of and into myself.
As I started to observe what has been and what is still yet to be achieved...
It brought me to a point of acknowledgement of a year that has been consumed of a yin and yang of loss and gain.
[ Trigger warning. The next 4 paragraphs mention death ]
Loss
This year, 2 inspiring women in my life passed away.
One was my grandmother. For someone of her generation, I was always inspired by her modern and diverse views.
The other was someone who I was lucky enough to call a friend. She played a huge role in my healing journey and for that I am ever grateful.
And with this, came a stark reminder that those moments when I loss work or a client or a project that made me feel like a failure, an imposter and a quitter.
None of that seemed matter as much as it did in that moment.
And then I reflected and found my YANG.
Gain
I was reminded that all is not lost. And although this year has certainly had it moments. The learnings I have gained has change my views and helped me grow.
Furthermore, By being open... new opportunities now come my way.
"The whole point of being alive is to become the person you were intended to be, to grow out of and into yourself again and again."
So why put a limitation on myself
Ourselves
Which only prevents me
Us
from being who we are meant to be?
"Dream big - very big. Work Hard - very hard. And after you've done all you can, fully surrender to your power."
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