Come Into Your Own

What a year.  Crazy ups and downs for everyone.

Some people got attached / engaged – gained loved ones.

Some people lost family members / friends – lost loved ones.

I suppose this is what time does.  It gives you a chance, an opportunity, with each passing day, to come into your own.

Any change in our lives requires us to give up a part of ourselves.  Gaining someone requires us to share ourselves.  Losing someone takes a part of ourselves away.

Whether we willingly gave it up or it was forcefully taken away from us, whatever remains of ourselves has to be that much stronger to continue living.

We are a little fearful and nervous because with each passing day, we are reminded that things are changing; transitioning from being supported to supporting ourselves, and others.

Yet here we are.

The people I know reading this are a strong bunch.  We do not give in, we do not give up.  We do not know if we can make it through the year, but we will live as though we will.

We will gain strength, lose weakness.

We will gain wisdom, lose folly.

Most importantly, we will look to the future – what we can still change – and not forget, but learn from and appreciate the past.

Come into your own, and all the best for 2012.