The Pivot Year

by Brianna Wiest

You sabotage opportunities because you don’t really want them,

You can’t outrun your own inner knowing.

you’re asked to let go of what’s only kind of right, so you can finally find what’s an absolute yes.

You’ll look back and realize that every piece of the path was, in some way, an answered prayer—something

One day, you will see the purpose of it all.

When you fear making the wrong turn, you are assuming that life is a fixed set of events that will unfold in accordance with one, singular decision made or not made.

I hope your hallways are a museum of a life well-lived.

there is no guilt in a slow, beautiful, enriching, nourishing

life?

Your entire being has to get used to functioning within a new frequency, a new dimension you’ve entered into whether you realize it or not.

There will never be a point in your life where you most crave love as when you yourself are void of it, when you have lost love for yourself.

Prioritize the depth of your connections as opposed to the width of them.

What matters is not how many people you can surround yourself with at any given time, but how much time you spend with the ones who actually see you, who value and prioritize you, who feel like the family you’ve chosen.

Surround yourself with the people who you admire, who you trust, who you would want to grow to be.

You are not the status you hold within this world, you are the awareness behind your eyes that can absorb and interpret and feel into what it sees.

You are divine, you are human, nothing and everything all at once.

The compulsion to prove oneself does not reinforce your sense of self-worth, it slowly diminishes it.

You will become most concerned with how you are seen when you are not okay with how you are feeling.

Not every connection is meant to last forever, and the ending is not a failure.

Sometimes, it is a sign of the truest love of all—the willingness to let someone chase the life that’s calling to them.

The detour brought you back to what you had thought you lost.

The broken heart taught you how to love yourself.

I hope you find the courage to change course as often as you need to.

I hope you never let your ego keep you on a path you know is not right for you.

Your ability to find joy and meaning and radiate pure love is with you always.

Maybe we all need to live a little more in the possibility of today, rather than the promise of tomorrow.

You should go for it—all of those silly little dreams.

I hope you let yourself be guided into destiny. I hope you change your life.