You go to a place that not many that you grew up with will understand. But you understand this place is where you are meant to be. You learn here, you break here, you maybe even cry a little here, but most importantly, you grow here. You face demons here. You pray here. You carry and shoulder the heaviest burdens. You lean into your strengths, because your weaknesses will leave you flailing and lagging behind. And then they eventually become your strengths too. You learn to trust your intuition. You learn to release your inhibitions. You remember what it’s like to trust people, even if that begins with just trusting yourself. You learn to truly trust yourself. You learn that the cold brings her lessons. You learn that a fire has been man’s comfort for centuries. You learn to bend when it’s needed, but not break. You learn that all that you were in the wrong places, isn’t enough when you are in the right places. You learn that while life’s a journey, your bags have been packed since birth and your destination decided too. You learn that you playing it safe was never what God intended for you. You learn that a life without a gamble is a card game that isn’t worth playing. You learn that while you doubt yourself often, that it isn’t really you that you are doubting, it’s some fear based persona that you adopted and lived with. You learn that this place didn’t transform you like so many people like to write about or claim, but it just made you more yourself.
Always chasing the horizon.