The Loneliness No One Talks About
No one warns you about the loneliness that comes with growing.
The silence when old friendships no longer fit, and new ones haven’t yet arrived.
The ache of outgrowing places, conversations, even older versions of... See more
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I've seen it too many times to doubt it. Growth rarely comes with alignment. First it brings exile. There is a no-man's land between who you were and who you're becoming.
The old friends are still telling the same jokes, the radio plays all the same songs, the obligations keep piling up just like they usually do. And... See more
instagram.comWriter Alice Walker on the discomfort of growth:
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the... See more
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the bottleneck to achieving results, the discomfort of growth, and friendship
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