Inevitably, you have to let some things go.
If you want to be one thing, with all of your heart,
it means you have to give up on those other things that catch your fancy.
You have to watch them fall away, one by one,
the doors of possibility closing with that tightening focus
on the reality you’ve chosen. This is what it means to grow up;
making the successful transition from “I can be anything”
to “I am now something”; and it’s rough, I know, because
those potential people are still you, and it always feels like a death in the family
when one of them goes away. It is acceptable to mourn.
But never let the grief get the best of you.
It’s a long road from indulging potential to aimless drifting,
and it’s quite easy to miss the signposts,
but you’ll know you’re there. Even if you hide behind billboards screaming
“All who wander are not lost”,
you’ll know.
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