Some lessons can only be lived. 💚#dailyreminder #LifeAdvice #mindsetmotivation

I keep coming back to this thought, forgive yourself for not knowing sooner what only living could teach you because we spend so much time being hard on ourselves, for the years that we waste relationships that we stayed in too long, the job that we should have left sooner, the version of us that didn't see it coming, but here's the thing, we hadn't lived yet, we didn't have that version of us that exists now, some lessons don't come from reading about them or being told, they come from living through them, and that is not failure on our part, that is just how growth works, so if you're still punishing yourself for not knowing sooner, stop. Because you weren't behind, you were just still becoming.