Move Forward

Moving forward is an essential step of growth. But growth is, most of the time, painful. There always are changes which might not suit our taste, or changes which force us to sacrifice things.

We may have grudges we cannot let go. We may have people we cannot forgive. We may have places we cannot return to. We may have memories we cannot disremember. No one can order us to cancel those things, because it is solely up to us what will do with them.

At the same time, our lives cannot be held back. We need to grow.

Whatever we cannot yet release, we can use them to remind ourselves our reason for striving, the lessons we learned, the hardships we faced, the times we proved them wrong. Whatever we cannot yet release, we can leverage them as fuel, to move forward.

Growth is painful. But, it is greater pain to keep living in the past and being outgrown by the rest of the world. We can always stop by and look back while moving forward. But, we cannot move forward while being chained by the past.

Always choose to grow.