The Journey Right Now

Maybe right now, the journey isn’t about love.

I think maybe, right now the journey is about being alone. Maybe this is the season of being challenged — to inherently learn how to wake up in the middle of the bed and to find hope in that vacancy, hope in that quiet, hope in the way you stretch into your life and give yourself the permission to take up all the space within it. Maybe right now, the journey is about revelations — where you are being shown that you can take care of yourself, that you can depend on the person you have become, that you can be your own home, that you can be your own partner, that you can lift yourself up, no matter how many times life tries to wither you away.

Just maybe, right now the journey isn’t about love. Maybe right now, the journey is about hope. Maybe this is the season of being challenged — to remind yourself of the beauty and opportunities life has to offer you. Maybe right now, the universe is giving you the time and space to discover your kind of places, that leave your bones dripping with feelings and fill your heart with joy, where you belong and are not compelled to visit because of someone else. Maybe right now, you are being given the freedom to choose your type of songs. Songs that are yours and yours alone, which you don’t have to pretend to like to avoid hurting someone else’s feelings. Maybe right now, you are being given the serenity to choose your kind of people. People who love you in a way that no one has ever before, and most importantly, people who will not seek to change you.

So maybe, right now the journey isn’t about love. Maybe right now, the journey is about self discovery. Maybe this is the season of possibilities — to start afresh and write your story like you always imagined it to be. Maybe right now, you are being given a chance to reclaim your joy, and indulge in activities you find adventurous. It could be anything from reading banned books to dancing in the waterfall to fishing by the lake to watching the colors of the horizon. Maybe now is the time to not be dictated by someone else’s definition of adventure. Maybe right now, is your time to make it as the most natural extension of who you truly are, to let it be spilled out through your words, and your laughter, and your tears — to become someone you believe you are worthy of, to let this be something you believe you deserve.

No, right now your journey isn’t about love. Maybe right now, your journey is about you. Maybe this is the season you are being told to be your own savior, to be your own secure place. Maybe right now, you are being reminded — that all those people who walked away from your life were only leading you backwards to your old self, never to who you have become today. And now, right here, you are okay on your own. Here, you are remodeling. Here, you are adapting, and mending, and reclaiming all the pieces you let them walk away with. Here, you are being kinder to your soul, and giving yourself the same love you have always given others. Here, you are not rushing your heart, and not depending on another human to fix it. Here, you are doing that by yourself. Here, you are healing. 💜

xAG