“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.” ~Paulo Coelho
For years, any time I felt sadness, insecurity, loneliness, or any of those “unwelcome” feelings, I jumped into action.
I’d look for something new to take on: a class, a language, a project, a degree. Once, in the span of a single week, I signed up for language classes, researched getting certified in something I didn’t actually want to do, and convinced myself I needed to start training for a 10K.
Because if I was doing something productive, I wouldn’t have to sit with what I was feeling. Tha…
“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.” ~Paulo Coelho
For years, any time I felt sadness, insecurity, loneliness, or any of those “unwelcome” feelings, I jumped into action.
I’d look for something new to take on: a class, a language, a project, a degree. Once, in the span of a single week, I signed up for language classes, researched getting certified in something I didn’t actually want to do, and convinced myself I needed to start training for a 10K.
Because if I was doing something productive, I wouldn’t have to sit with what I was feeling. Tha…
