When you learn something new for the first time you flail miserably at it, but eventually you identify your weaknesses and over time the process toward solution becomes almost instinctual. Things get better and easier, and somehow you’ve developed into this whole new person who could do the hard things you once dreaded, now effortlessly. I find... See more

You stop waking up every morning with dread in your chest. Or if it’s still there, it becomes familiar less like a monster, more like a weather pattern. You know how to live around it. You don’t panic when it rains anymore. You learn to carry an umbrella, to cancel plans, to sit by the window instead of fighting the storm.

So whatever it is you’re going through, you’ll get through it. Because nothing stays the same. And in the end, you’ll be made better for it. Because you don’t stay the same either.