The Pivot Year

by Brianna Wiest

There is great power in not knowing.

Happiness is not finding success by a certain time, but finding something you love so much time itself seems to disappear. Happiness is not thinking you have earned the world’s approval,

Maybe you don’t need to find more energy, maybe you just need to find a dream that makes you actually want to get up in the morning.

the one that asks you to risk, to lay your heart bare, to try again, even though you’re scared.

You’re not supposed to get far on a path that was never yours to walk.

if the joy is not in the little things first, the big things won’t fully find us.

Chapters of great transformation often feel like they carry on forever, but the truth is that they are often gardens that grow from tiny seeds that you’ve been planting for a very long time.

You have built a life within the complete unknown, you have reconstructed a new version of yourself from the pieces of what you thought would be.

Kindness is evidence of impenetrable strength. It is the willingness to stay soft in a world that tries to harden you at every corner. It is the ability to absorb your own emotions and diffuse them, to decide what you want to act on and what you want to put back out into the world, regardless of what the world has put you through.

You’ll always return to what you really are, you will always come back to your truth.

Not where you are glad for all that you might do one day, but the beauty with which you experience the smallest and most unassuming of things.

You will have to learn how to outgrow some things you love.

You will have to learn that if you are not growing, you are not really living.