How Much Have You Grown This Year?

It’s been a year since everything was different. Have you changed, too?

We’re swiftly on our way to the end of 2020.

The finish line is just seven days away. It’s hard to catalog all of the things that have changed in 12 months. It’s almost too much to think about. And as we have spent so much time looking around us to see things falling apart, or coming back together in new ways, it’s also important to look within for the same.

How much have you grown this year? How do you even know if you’ve grown? Growing doesn’t mean that you’ve become perfect or better than before, or that you’re happy all the time. Growing means you’ve stretched past your previous abilities to face and process your own reality.

The common misconception is that when you grow, you feel better.

The truth though, is that sometimes when you grow, you actually feel worse than you did before, for a while. Discomfort can be a temporary growing pain felt when you’re faced with new information — before you know how to process it.

Sometimes that discomfort means you’ve woken up, and you’re finally seeing that some of the things in your life or in your thoughts… are not ok. That you are not ok. That something needs to change. It may be time to get help from a therapist or an organization. It may also be a time to look at what’s important to you, at what you need the most to be well and happy.

The muck and mire of 2020 is simply new information. It’s discomfort. It’s a reason to push past your previous reality and find a new one…one in which you’re doing something to make your life better, or to make other people’s lives better., or both.

You are always in a relationship with yourself and with the world around you. Always, always. Whether you are numb, or angry, or sad or despondent or elated or lost, or content, or…you get the picture.

Looking at how happy or unhappy you are is not always the best measure of growth. As you look back on this year, look at what you understood in the beginning and what you understand now.

Look at what you wanted in January, and what you want now.

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