It happens slowly at first, the way the tiniest roots break out of the seed.
Tiny changes happening one at a time and then all at once.
You are a different person than you were a year ago, a month ago, a moment ago.
You are becoming.
It happens slowly at first, the way the tiniest roots break out of the seed.
Tiny changes happening one at a time and then all at once.
You are a different person than you were a year ago, a month ago, a moment ago.
You are becoming.
There used to be a Pizza Hut on North and Western.
“Is it those millenniums at it again?”
“I think you mean millenials.”
“I heard they don’t like chains.”
First they came for Applebees, now they’ve come for pizza.
“No one is killing pizza.”
The area is changing.
They call it gentrification.
There’s no room there for a Pizza Hut from the 80s when you could build overpriced condos.
“Hey, do you remember when I gave you a ride there on the back of my bike?”
“Oh yeah, to the Pizza Hut on Western and North.”
Where is your home, little one?
Are you lost?
It’s ok. Take my hand. I’ll lead you to the promised land.
Do you need a home, somewhere to stay?
A place where you know, you’ll always be safe?
What is home?
A feeling or place?
Come with me, we’ll find it together, wherever it may be.
Little by little you see the change.
Electricity flows through your limbs, energy pulses through your muscles awakening everything that had been dormant for too long.
With every jab and every thrust you shake off the atrophy of stiff joints and learn to move again.
Focus on yourself in the mirror don’t look to your right or to your left.
They’re not why you’re here.
They’re not why you power through.
Their body is not your body.
Their goals are not your goals.
It hurts less today than it did last week. Focus on that.
Focus on the fact that you can do more than you did two months ago.
Don’t quit.
Don’t stop.
Don’t give up.
Every day you get a little bit stronger.
Every day is a new victory.