Recognizing Our Own Growth

When a person feels like a failure, so often they see themselves in a single moment, assessed by what has been achieved. Consider taking on Henry David Thoreau’s point of view and see yourself and your life as nature: "If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful." We have a hard time backing away and seeing ourselves from a grander point of view. When we allow ourselves to do so, it becomes so much easier to recognize all that has changed within us, all the areas of growth we’ve been through, and it becomes easier to trust that we are continuing to grow. In looking at ourselves, we embrace feeling a bit of excitement as we wonder what that growth within us will look like.

"If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful."

~ Henry David Thoreau