💡 on growing (slowly)

i used to think that outgrowing meant failure. that if a job or a friendship or even an identity no longer fit, it was because i hadn’t tried hard enough to hold on or make it work. now i see it differently: outgrowing means you listened closely. you let yourself expand, even when it was inconvenient. you listened to the whisper. you honoured the... See more

“Nature is not in a hurry, yet everything is accomplished,” said Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu.