Just Visiting

As someone notoriously hard on herself, this was the permission and validation I needed:

“We’re not settling. We’re visiting.”

OOF.

What may seem as regressing, as being ‘stagnant’ is only temporary. That assignment you did which was sub-par, the job you’re in right now which isn’t for you… all of these are just steps before reaching your ‘destination’.

(I put quotes around destination because heck, of course we’ll never truly get there since things constantly change, or we might realise another destination is better and head towards that)

So if you’re someone like me who gives herself a hard time if things aren’t ‘ideal’, accept that this isn’t a failure, that you are not a failure. Sure the detour adds time onto our GPS route… though despite all the pit-stops, refuelling and getting a flat tyre, in the end we get back onto the road.