We come into this world as one thing and leave it as another. The time we’re granted in between can be described as our journey. A finite amount of time to figure out how to leave our mark on the world. We have ideas, expectations, and interests we hope to fulfill, but as in any great story, they’re all challenged by the tensions of an ever changing world.

Where we thought we would be at any given point in our lives doesn’t always match the reality that the world doesn’t always work the way we expect it to. It pushes us to overcome obstacles, by going through or around them. These roadblocks can certainly discourage our progress, yet it is in the moments of tension, or conflict, or hardship that allow us to discover who we are and what we can become.

We either figure out how to make the thing we’re after work for us, or change directions and create a new path. Neither is inherently right or wrong. Evolving, or becoming a better version of ourselves, is a never ending process, it takes hard work — including failure, adversity, and heartbreak — and so many revisions from the original idea of who we thought we would become that sometimes where we end up is barely recognizable to where we thought we would be. And that’s not a bad thing, so just keep making your revisions.