Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ~ Carl Jung
Certain of Her Purpose
Growth and change
require intention—
a willingness
to open up,
to face what may feel upsetting
and sad.
A plant doesn’t just grow with sunshine.
It needs watering too,
a balance to cultivate
before it can truly blossom,
before it blooms.
To be self-aware takes effort,
and not everyone wants to try.
Life doesn’t often change us completely.
What it does, though,
is bring to light
aspects of our character
that were always there.
But I know transformation is possible.
I have seen it.
I have lived it.
I met my future
years ago in Berlin:
a beautiful young woman,
a writer
with a green typewriter.
She was someone else’s child,
yet when I saw her,
I saw my younger self—
twenty years ago,
certain of her purpose.
Autonomous.
Knowing exactly what she wanted.
Leading with kindness,
with empathy.
She was the future I wanted to see:
not complacent,
not complicit,
but alive,
awake.
She was a vision of what we could all become—
if we choose to be.
DD
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