Sometimes life’s journey takes us down a path we did not want to take. It leads us to a place where we really did not want to be. As we reflect upon these places we learn that they were exactly what we needed at the time.
It’s difficult to look back and not think, I wonder how I would be or how my life would be different if that hadn’t happened. Would I be more successful? Would I be farther along? Would I be married with children? Our journeys thus far have taken us places that we may not have wanted to go but they were necessary.
As I reflect back on my life, the failed relationships, the periods of loneliness, the times when I felt lost, unhappy and not good about myself. I now know that I needed all of that. There was true growth and evolution through each and every one of those experiences. It surely wasn’t fun, pretty or good at the time…trust me. But, isn’t this what life is all about? Learning, growing and evolving so that we can reach our fullest, truest potential?
I don’t know about you but I really believe in the butterfly effect. So maybe I won’t go back and erase that knucklehead from my past. After all he taught me what a knucklehead looks like and I’m glad I learned that early. I surely would not want to erase him from then only to have him pop up later. Lol.
But seriously, the more valuable lesson was that a person will only do to you what you allow. If you know yourself, your worth and your value you won’t entertain or allow anything less than. The old folks like to say if I knew then what I know now, I’m telling you child. Well let me tell you this, if I knew then what I know now, it would be nah bruh keep it moving…#notonmylevelofgreatness
What past things have you been dwelling on wishing that you could change? What did you learn from that experience? What is one thing that you can now say you needed to see or gain from that experience? How has that experience contributed to your growth and shaped the person you are today?