The Pivot Year

by Brianna Wiest

It’s disrupting you because it’s trying to move you—to a kinder thought, to a better place, to a deeper knowing. It is trying to open up a piece of your heart that you have closed, to soften you in the places where life has left its harshest scars. It is trying to inspire your forgiveness, to meet others in the moment, as they are now. It is trying to help you stop keeping the past alive by maintaining outdated perceptions, and it’s trying to bring you firmly into this moment. It’s unnerving to you because it is a messenger, and you have not yet heard what it is trying to say. It is persistent because you need it, even if you don’t want it. It’s here because it intends to grow you, and it won’t pass until you agree to let it stretch you past the tiny confines of a life half-lived.