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Square One

September 6, 2016

As I was driving with my oboe sister around this morning and afternoon, it dawned how I also want to go forward and then go right back to square one.

How can anything change when every time I want to go forward I take one step forward and then I go back to how things were before. After a while, I realize how nothing has changed and get frustrated. I never took the time to realize that part of that was me.

I have to learn that baby steps are important and as small as they might be every small step forward is a step forward. Right now, things are hard and crazy but I have to find a way forward.

Life is a constantly changing process and that means that who I am is changing and the people in my life are changing too. Friends come and go. No matter how hard that might be to believe that someone isn't a part of my life.

Staying in square one is the same frustrating process over and over again. All it does is create pain and aggravation. What's the point of that? Walk away or walk forward. It is scary. (Believe me!) However, it's totally worth the unknown to take a step into new friends or places. Don't get stuck in square one.

Are you repeating square one?

xoxo,
Em

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