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It’s Okay to Outgrow the Life You Thought You Wanted
the real challenge, in building an accomplished and absorbing life, is learning to let go.
Oliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
It might be that our desires change or that our circumstances just don’t line up with an old vision. Either way, many people told me that discarding the picture they had of how their lives would be—sometimes joyfully, sometimes through grieving—was necessary in order to fully embrace something better, or at least accept something different.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
When we finally admit this truth to ourselves, we often experience rejection. The things that once served us no longer do. The people who were once our friends no longer resonate. The work we do doesn't fulfill us anymore.
Why? Because we've outgrown this fake and limiting idea that we need to fit in, that there's one right path, that success means ... See more
Why? Because we've outgrown this fake and limiting idea that we need to fit in, that there's one right path, that success means ... See more
Carolina Wilke • 072:The Business of Being Different: Why Your Weird is Your Power
Expected elation. Society has built a world that defines what's appealing and what's not. What success should look like. I spent years chasing this idea, and achieved it. And never felt truly happy. Why? It seems so obvious, there are a million songs and movies about how wealth and fame aren't the end all be all for human states. Yet we pursue it a... See more
So just when you think friendship or wealth or a family or influence was your ultimate destination, you hang out there for a while and the place starts to dim. What once held your fascination—even, for a time, seemed like it was your reason to live—doesn’t “do it” for you anymore. You won’t admit it to yourself for a long while. After all, you sent
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