Your Best Years
Are they really behind you?
How does it feel knowing your best years are behind you? How does it feel realising now that you didn’t even know at the time they were passing you by? Did you enjoy them? Did you have fun? One day, you will probably come to see these current days as part of the “best years”. Are you enjoying them? Are you having fun?
Reflection
Do you ever catch yourself reflecting on your version of the “glory days”? And then you are stuck by some form of sadness, knowing they are long gone.
Here’s something I have noticed…
As time passes and we evolve through new experiences, those glory days expand or reappear in different forms.
You might feel like your best days are behind you now as you struggle to let go of a past self who was known for a particular thing or hung out with certain people you no longer align with.
But what you cannot see now is that you are on the cusp of a new horizon, a new chapter, and part of you hasn’t caught up yet to the change that is happening.
And that “new self” you are about to become may value slightly different things or appreciate new people and experiences.
What you think of as “best years” changes as you grow.
Eventually, you ripen like fruit on the tree and willingly enter this new chapter. Or the caterpillar turning into a butterfly is another metaphor for transformation. We may live one way for a long time and then seamlessly transition into what feels like a new life.
Suddenly, you are overflowing with possibility as you realise your best years are not behind you; you are making them now.
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Possibility on the horizon:
When the glory days expand or reappear, we'll be ready. Wiser and calmer.