A Life In All Caps

"Stop shrinking yourself to fit places you've outgrown" - Anonymous

Recently I have found myself reflecting on the well worn paperback of my life so far.

Some chapters I look at with the sweet ache of nostalgia - lines upon lines filled with love, laughter, adventure, friendship, and silliness.

Some pages my own heart has redacted - erasing times of pain, shame, loneliness.

I read back upon moments where my fears paralyzed action - where I was given the choice to blossom in boldness or shrink in self doubt.

I use a highlighter to allow myself to honestly see and absorb the simple and neon evident truth that there have been far more moments in my life where I made myself small, where I have held back, stayed quiet, chosen to shrink than moments where I allowed myself to expand and take flight.

It's a heartbreaking thing to realize that you've been clipping your own wings.

So a reminder to myself (and to whoever else needs to hear it today), now is not the time to play small, to sit back and let other people define your life. You've written that chapter already and its grown tired and outdated. Take the pen and write boldness with each stroke. A life in ALL CAPS. You owe it to yourself to see what happens when you allow yourself to soar.