Your younger self would be proud of you.
When you remember how you looked at adult life as a child, how did it feel?
Confusing maybe?
Or complicated?
During those years when it was your time to just play, what was your perspective on growing up?
Today you’re doing some hard things.
Today you’re showing up in bigger shoes than you might have thought not possible.
What part of it is your efforts?
How has your surrender to live your life more boldly than in hiding been affecting the outcome where you are now?
Sometimes we get very caught into some things that haven’t worked out like we planned.
And how that can shadow the successes and deep joys of living the life we live right now, it can have an overwhelming effect.
What you can do today to find some clarity is this.
Go back to those moments being a little child, wondering about the foreign adult life complexities.
Find out how your little self could be proud of you today.
What you think as an obvious action, minimizing your role in it with “of course I did that” or “everybody can do this” might be a huge celebration for that little girl you once were.
So for her sake, give yourself that credit.
Celebrate your life as that little girl would.
Tap back into that innocence of heart where deep gratitude flows.
It helps you to recognize treasures you had forgotten you already have.
From that place those shadows of disappointments lose their power over your tomorrow.
They cannot trap you anymore as your thoughts sour higher.
You’re running with that summer dress to hills and mountains to see the wider perspective in life.
You're flying that kite of gratitude like it was a dividing line of “this is where my disappointments are my mere teachers from now on”.
And “this is where the little girl in me celebrates my life as it is now”.
Fly that kite with that little girl and look into her bright shining eyes.
You’ll see a reflection of who you are becoming as you let yourself celebrate your journey.
Right here, right now.
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