“There was a season when I thought the point of setting a goal was to reach it exactly as I first imagined it. Neat. Direct. Like drawing a straight line on clean paper.”
🍵 Tea-Stained Thursdays: When Destinations Change
But the truth is — life doesn’t move in straight lines. It curls, it loops, it smudges. And the goals we set? They change too.
Sometimes you set out toward one thing and end up somewhere else entirely. You start a project, a path, a practice, and along the way you realize: the destination has shifted.
And maybe that used to scare me. The thought that I wasn’t doing it “right.”
But now I see it differently.
Every detour, every pivot, every change of heart makes the goal more lived in.
Because goals aren’t just finish lines.
They’re companions for the version of you that exists right now.
And as you grow, they do too.
So if the thing you thought you wanted looks different now, that’s not failure.
That’s proof you’re alive. Proof you’re listening. Proof you’re letting yourself evolve.
So let your goals breathe. Let them stain, smudge, and rewrite themselves as you go.
They’re not promises carved in stone.
They’re pages — waiting to be lived in.
With love,
from the heART.
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