Paths
Growing up or Getting older. We do it every hour and every minute. However, it looks different and feels different for every person. Now, there are always people who are walking the same path as you, and taking their own steps. However, that’s not who I am going to highlight, just yet. Personally, I am learning that the people I have surrounded myself with, most of them, are not walking the same path as me. I graduated college a year ago, slowly figuring out my career, and am in a serious relationship. Most of my friends are still in their undergrad, not in relationships, or still have a good minute until they are close to my path… This has been a challenge. Usually, I pride myself on being the trend setter, the leader, the big sister, or the mom of the group. But what do you do when you feel so far ahead that you become lost, and are looking for someone to be the Big for you…
First of all, I don’t think I have found myself that person. I am slowly surrounding myself with things that help me understand the path that I am on. Now having those people that have in the past, or are going down the same path is very helpful, but we will start with how I am handling not having that… yet.
So recently, I have a job in which I am gaining experience within the marketing realm. I just finished my first two semesters of Graduate School, in which I am working towards a Masters in Business Administration. I am in a serious relationship. I have been in and out of church recently. These things are all different paths of this journey that I am on and navigating, and they are all by themselves hard walks, so when you put them all at the same time… talk about a hike. When looking at these paths separately, it makes it easier to understand the struggles, however, put all together it's like when you allow everything to build up until it all falls. I am also going through the idea of moving to a new town, or a new job (neither have been secured or fully in the works, don’t worry) which is scary on its own. Yay opportunity, but the doom of something new, SCARY.
As I was saying, we are all in different walks, and yes there may be similarities but it all affects us differently. Navigating this thought path has been a struggle and one I need to remind myself of as much as possible, so that when I am struggling with my own hike, I need to remember that the people around me are also on their own hike, and they might have a much harder path on theirs… That doesn’t mean that I cannot help or be supportive of them, it just means that their hike is theirs and when we make it through, that experience can lead to guidance and understanding, we just have to be patient.
