Growth is optional

Growth, it's a funny thing really. We don't always realize it when it happens, but then we look back and we are somehow a different and better person.

For me, growth is positive change; that doesn't mean that positive things need to happen to you in order to grow, it means that you have to make the most out of those obstacles and opportunities and let the experience help teach you valuable lessons. Everything that happens to you will mold you in someway or another, it just really depends on how you view.

A lot of times we like to stay stuck in the same place. When I say that it sounds crazy, why would we ever want to stay in the same place, the same rut, that we are in? We should want to move forward, right? For some reason, we like to stay there and pity ourselves and make excuses for why things can't change,even though they can. The excuse that gets me the most is "that's just the way I am" or "that's how I was born/raised".

Just because you were born that way, just because you are currently that way, it doesn't mean you have to STAY that way. We aren't static creatures, we are constantly evolving into something different, little by little. Never underestimate your ability to change your future or shake up your "destiny". You are the way you are, but you can always change that. You aren't stuck, you just think you are. You don't have to be what you once were.

Change is inevitable and growth is optional. You don't have to be what you once were, that's just nonsense. Please don't let what you "always have been" dictate who you always be.