Not Everybody Is Going To Grow — It’s Not Your Job To Force Them
By January Nelson
When you’re young, your path in life is set.
You are not that much different than most people you know.
You attend the same schools, you move from grade to grade, you study the same things, participate in the same extracurriculars, you have the same basic standards and expectations for your lives.
As you get older, you start to see a difference in outcomes.
You see the silent effects of privilege, of character, of good decision making and bad. You see the way that some people manage their lives or fail to do so. You see who has changed and who has not.
You see who has grown, and who has not.
Throughout your life, you will look back and realize that there are many people who you used to know who have stayed precisely where they’ve always been.
Not geographically, but mentally and emotionally.
There are people who still care about the same shallow dramas, the same petty problems, the same constant game of one-upping, and proving who has the most perfect life.
There are people who are still lost in the nuances of the same worthiness game that we all played at some point or another.
