There are many directions our lives can take us and only one life that we actually live. We may dream over time of being many roles, yet choose only a few. Other parts we may hope to avoid playing and still find ourselves performing functions that we'd rather not. There is no clock perfectly ticking away toward a life that should be, no map that we have to follow, no exactly right way to live; and the ambiguity, heightened by social influences, that we experience when contemplating what we've been, what we are, and what we will be may indeed be a pretty good reason why we yearn for some concrete timekeeper to tell us what to do. Yet, the strength it takes to sit in and to shape our own lives, including choosing how much and when we lean in to the opinions of others, is a strength that can itself be the reward of a life lived with self-compassion and self-curiosity. What is one way that you are self-compassionate or self-curious about who you are?
[image description: A heart with a somber, contemplative facial expression sits on a hill with one hand on a knee holding up its head. Text reads, "I want to be a mother, but I'm scared and I keep waiting."]
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