Growth aches.
Because it happens in the unknown.
It pushes you to places where you can’t see ahead
and you know there’s no going back.
And when you wish you could fall so you could touch the ground,
it pulls you up and asks you to spread wings
you had forgotten were yours.
Because growing is about activating strength,
a strength you had no clue was dormant in you.
And when you look around for answers
and feel you have lost all that mattered, you hear a voice that knows…
if there’s something you missed, it’s the chance
to let yourself be more of you.
Growing is freakingly painful,
but that feeling…
when the chest opens wider…
is worth all of it.