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Moving to Richmond has been the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. For awhile, I felt silly admitting that because hellloooo there are like 99 billion bigger problems going on in the world right now. I don't really have any right to think my life is hard.
But you know what? Life is hard. If it were easy there would never be growth. And that is the way it is for e v e r y single person. There were so many times in the past three months when I would see friends who had made recent moves post stuff on social media, yes I know social media is a lie let's stop beating a dead horse please, and it just looked like they had it all figured out and they had adjusted so easily. And I couldn't help but wonder why it was so hard for me. Why did I suck so much at change?
Change is a part of life. Whether that is change we are ready to deal with, change we think we can deal with, or change we don't want to deal with, it is change nonetheless. And it is going to happen. I realized I could sit on the couch, try to block out the real world, and think about all the ways my life could be better, or I could embrace my current situation and make the most of it.
I realized that every second I spent not adjusting to my new situation, was a second I would never get back. I realized I didn't want to live my life hiding from hard things. And I realized that even though I was coming to these realizations, there were still going to be hard days. Days I am reaaaally not going to want to change. But that is ok. I think that this is true for everyone. I know the feelings of doubt, confusion, not being good enough, wanting to hide in bed forever, are feelings everyone has experienced. I was not alone. I still am not alone. There is something hard going on in everyone's life, but it is not our place to judge whose problems are bigger. The only thing we can really do, is try to find happiness in our own situations and love those around us. And that is what I intend to do from this point on.
Yes one of my many challenges in life is being terrible at adjusting to change. But there is so much change ahead of me, I better learn how to get used to it. So three cheers for embracing the new, looking at the positives and being happy. I dare you to do it too.
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