Sometimes, personal growth feels like training for track and field or something similar. At first, you invest the effort and do what is necessary to grow.
Just like running, you often don’t realize how much you’ve grown until you’re next to others. That can be bittersweet. You might see yourself growing apart from certain people or activities.
For me, I wouldn’t realize how much I grew while away at college until I went back home to visit. Nowadays, I sometimes don’t realize how much I’ve grown until I interact with certain people, or when I’m in situations where I would have acted or thought differently in the past.
We often feel a certain way about certain situations that we once did not feel that way. Or we may respond to certain situations in ways that we would not have in the past. We may not be able to put our finger on the weird feeling that we have I those moments, but the reason could be because you grew in some type of way.
Just like training for track, you can put the work in to deliberately grow. In fact, we should do that. If you’re not getting faster, you’re getting slower. If you aren’t growing, you’re shrinking.
FLY, BLACK BOY 