The Courage To Outgrow, The Strength To Begin Again.

 There will come a moment when you realize you are no longer who you used to be.

The dreams you once clung to have shifted.

The people you once begged to stay have drifted away.

The version of you that tolerated everything just to be loved… is slowly fading.

And maybe, for a moment, you will grieve her. Or him.

Maybe you will miss the innocence, the blind loyalty, the desperate hope that things would change if only you stayed smaller, quieter, easier to love.

But hear me: you are allowed to outgrow who you were.

You are allowed to look at your old self , the one who stayed in rooms where you were unseen, the one who swallowed their own voice just to be accepted 

and whisper, “Thank you for surviving… but I cannot stay here.”

You are allowed to walk away from the versions of you that were built from fear, from wounds, from survival.

You are allowed to rewrite your story.

Not because the past didn’t matter, it did.

But because you matter more.

There is no shame in evolving.

There is no guilt in choosing peace over familiarity.

There is no apology necessary for deciding that you deserve more than a life half-lived.

Growth is messy.

Healing is uncomfortable.

Change feels like standing barefoot on unfamiliar ground, terrified, yet alive.

But it is better to be trembling in the truth than thriving in a lie.

You don’t have to explain your transformation to anyone.

You don’t have to apologize for the distance between who you are now and who you used to be.

You don’t have to shrink back into the version of yourself that everyone else finds easier to understand.

Your healing, your hope, your journey, they are sacred.

So walk away if you must.

Start over if you must.

Choose yourself, even if your voice shakes.

You are not betraying who you were.

You are honoring who you are becoming.

Food for Thought:

What if the person you are becoming is the answer to the prayers your old self once whispered into the dark?