How it all unfolds.
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People always talk about your life flashing before your eyes when you’re dying, but honestly that tends to happen to me a lot while I’m well and living. My life often plays in my head, like I’m watching the movie trailer of everything that has happened in my life so far.
Today I was washing the dishes by hand – I like to do that sometimes when I want some time to just slow down and have a reason to be away from my screens and just think and be. I was thinking about how life is really a big ongoing series of saying yes or no.
Obviously you can think about all the times you’ve said no to something, but focus on the yes’s for a moment.
The yes to the first date, yes to the internship, yes to the road trip, yes to the urge to move across the country, yes to starting the business, yes to marriage, yes to having a baby – all of it has brought you here. Even if some of those things haven’t gone in your favor, they are part of your story and how it unfolds.
Life is really just a series of decisions that we say yes to, even when things don’t go the way you intend or picture. It’s those very moments that paint the big picture of your life. You can’t get so caught up in looking back at all the things you’d change or do differently, because without them playing out the way they did, you’d be missing all the best parts of yourself that are here right now.
My husband and I often like to reflect back on the situations in our lives, both individually and together as a couple, that didn’t go how we thought they would, the moments that we thought were nearly going to break us but ended up shaping us. We always come to one conclusion: we wouldn’t change a single thing, even though in the moment itself it felt like we were drowning. Instead of focusing on what we wish we would have done or not done, we focus on the lessons learned, the important things it taught us.
When you can look back and see how much you’ve grown and matured, how thankful you are that you experienced even the worst moments of life, things start to feel a whole lot more clear and peaceful.
morgan