Rushing

Define what you want and go after it. Find your passion, make it your life. Move with purpose. Visualize your future. Build the future of your dreams. Get clear on what you want and how you’re going to get it.

We see messages like the ones above every day. And these messages are important, valid — true.

We see others doing these things. We see them living the lives we might one day want to be ours. We see others as “ahead” of us in certain ways.

We compare.

I think this has done something to us. I think it has made us feel panicked, rushed, somehow behind — maybe a little lost.

One day, we started thinking that because we don’t have it all figured out — because we don’t have a perfectly clear vision of our future job, relationship, home — life — that we are somehow less than.

We began rushing it all.

Rushing finding our dream job. Rushing finding our purpose in life. Rushing finding the person we want to do life with. Rushing finding what we truly love.

Comparing, rushing. Comparing, rushing.

Putting pressure on ourselves. Feeling desperate in the pursuit of what we truly want.

What I fear we have failed to realize, is that the best things in life take time. They take experiences. They take failures. They take lessons. They take growth.

They take time.

And the funny thing about it, is the more we rush into things we don’t want, the longer it is going to take us to find what we do.

We don’t have to have a perfectly clear vision at all times in our life. All we have to do, is show up as who we want to be and do things we know we love right now, today. Things that bring us closer to the version of ourselves that makes us feel the most whole.

Because through doing that, through becoming the person we want to be through daily practice, our vision becomes more clear.

Over time, we realize who and what we’re truly meant to be.

All we have to do, is give ourselves the time we deserve in order to build the life we will, truly, love the most.