To Guide and Grow

Stepping out and figuring out how to embrace every part of me is not so easy. There are parts that have been neglected or even starved. Now they look at me like tweens trying to understand themselves. I face them now, and try my best.

I've felt less like a mother and more like a guide. That is true now more than ever. Except the truth is, I seek out more outside guidance then ever. With these trusted guides I feel like I can formulate the plot to move forward with purpose and truth.

The trite labeling of "single" seems so simple compared to what it is I'm trying to do. It's the growth, the extending, the suspension of juvenile beliefs, the education of mature ones, and ultimately what can work best for me.

Indeed the "me" part of all this is clanging in my ears. I've never considered myself that self-centered, but that is the point of this forum, so I guess I have to embrace that. Ultimately the process feels quite public anyway. I fall in front of people, old friends pull me up, new ones, well, some stay, some walk away.

I suppose it's a bit delayed in saying so, but welcome to the ever so public growth of me.