Beginnings Are Just That

By Andrea Wilburn

The very things we do not wish to look at

Are the very things that can lead us to freedom

Our fears, our victimhood, our disadvantages

Our “right” to what we lost

But if you focus so much on your past

Then there you will continue to live!

Forfeiting where you have grown to

This present moment with this better learned person

But who only sees who they used to be

It is okay to look at yourself in the Only Now

We don’t want to see how irrelevant our beginnings are

We want comfort, stability, and roots

And while these things are positive in the present

To demand they tie to a specific time

Is to have part of yourself never grow beyond

Moving on is not a rejection

Growth is not at a person or place’s expense

You can still have affection for the former things

But they no longer need to define the present

You are grown now

You have lived

You have matured

You have forged a life

That has made your gifts more specific

And your dreams increasingly of your own heart’s

Be kind

Be respectful

Be ever grateful

But not just to where you came from

But also to where you are now.

You’ve got this!

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