Eddie Pinero

You'll leave them behind.

But those things no longer serve you.

They played their part.

They added their value.

and are now merely stepping stones as you move to something greater, and that's just it.

Sometimes living means wishing you did things differently, looking back and acknowledging that you need to be better.

Sometimes living means losing the wrong people in your life to make space for the right ones.

Sometimes it means spending days

months, even years wandering down the wrong path so that you can get a glimpse, so that you can realize what the right path looks like.

Sometimes it means no reward, no validation until that compounding finally takes place.

Finally, you see just how powerful those small steps were and will always be.

It means seeing yourself as the person you know you can be.

Maybe not necessarily the one you are today, but betting on yourself when no one else would.

There's an idea that people are neither good nor evil, but they have both within them.

They choose through their day-to-day action how they'll live, who they'll be.

And sure, this is a tad oversimplified, but I think the duality is useful, right?

Because in a different context, for everything that occurs in your life, you can find a reason to celebrate or a reason to grieve, a reason to grow or a reason to hide.

It all comes down to what one chooses to see, how they choose to look at the world.

I'll never forget when Peterson talked about curtains, right, with tears or holes in them, same world on the other side.

But the opening that you choose to look through paints an entirely different picture, right, contributes to an entirely different understanding.