Grow up.

All of us are dealing with emotions that are connected to our experiences.

Whether something happened 8 hours ago, 8 months ago, or 8 years ago, each of these experiences and the reactions we had from them carries with us throughout our lives.

Really, we are all kind of just learning to deal with our 8-year-old selves.

Working through, understanding, and trying to heal from all sorts of hard learning and emotions we experienced as kids.

The older we get and the more experiences we have, we recognize familiar feelings that we had as a child.

It is easy to default to how we acted as children if we didn’t learn from or grow from these hard experiences.

We are all kind of just grown-up kids.

But we need to grow up.

We can’t afford to continue to let what happened to us previously dictate how we treat ourselves and others today.

Those past experiences may have caused us to be anxious, to be avoidant, to be insecure, to be angry.

If we don’t dig deep, figure out each “why”, and begin to learn, we will unknowingly cause pain to ourselves and/or others.

We shouldn’t give our power and energy to our painful past.

We should give our power and energy towards our potential… our future.

We can’t change or control anything other than ourselves.

We can influence others as we change and control what we can control, but it is truly just you who carries that power and energy to be better.

I need to grow up.

There are many scars that I haven’t healed, and some that I haven’t even dealt with at all.

It’s no one else’s job to heal those but myself.

I just hope that I’m not too much for others as I try my best to be my best.

And I hope I can be kind to myself as I accept I have work to do.

“The only option from here is forward.”

NS

“I believe a few words can change your day and your life.”