1365: Outgrowing past versions of ourselves

For today's Daily Pep, we're diving into outgrowing past versions of ourselves and why that's not only valid, but to be expected!


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Good morning daily peppers, and a very happy Monday to you. So I thought I'd kick off this week by sharing with you something that I always find really reassuring and takes the pressure off, but I definitely don't hear enough from the world around me. And it's that you are allowed to outgrow things. You are allowed to outgrow past versions of yourself, you are allowed to outgrow things that used to really matter to you, you're allowed to outgrow goals, and you are allowed to change as a person. In a world that often feels unpredictable, the only predictable thing is change. Yet so often, whether because of our own inner dream shitter or because of external dreamshitters, we can end up feeling a bit like a photograph in terms of a single moment captured in time, even if it doesn't reflect our internal world and all the things we've gone through. I think it can also be quite tricky if we're multi passionate because chances are when we have changed, we've had those comments from well meaning and sometimes not well meaning people in our lives of oh, I thought you were into this thing. Oh, you're starting something new.

I wonder how long this phase is going to last for. Comments like that can really haunt us and we forget that curiosity is our superpower and for a lot of us, we're just trying to make the most of this wild and precious life we have. You are allowed to change. You're allowed to evolve, you are allowed to take a new picture. And if your picture is currently in a dark room being developed and you can't make out the picture, then join the club. A lot of us are right there with you. You do not owe anybody in your life past versions of yourself or versions of yourself that they wish existed. We are all evolving.

We are all changing. And if you listen to this thinking, actually I don't really want to change anything at the moment. Please do not go down the rabbit hole of thinking you need to change something and instead see that as a really good thing. Here's to us, here's to our evolving definitions and I'll see you tomorrow.