Life, I\u2019ve come to understand, is both relentless and redemptive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Robert Frost once said, \u201cIn three words, I can sum up everything I\u2019ve learned about life: It goes on.\u201d <\/em>Such a simple truth that feels obvious\u2014until you\u2019re in the thick of it, standing still while the world refuses to wait for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve felt that pause\u2014the moments where time seemed suspended, caught between heartbreak and the faint hope of healing. Losing my father at eleven taught me early how quickly life moves forward, even when grief feels like it\u2019s begging for everything to stop. The clocks don\u2019t pause; the seasons don\u2019t wait. And somehow, neither did I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s a cruel beauty in life\u2019s persistence. It doesn\u2019t ask if you\u2019re ready to move on; it just nudges you forward\u2014day by day, minute by minute. And somewhere in the process of being carried along, I began to find my footing again. I started to see that resilience isn\u2019t about charging ahead or forcing yourself to forget; it\u2019s about letting life\u2019s rhythm pull you back into its flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For me, \u201cgoing on\u201d wasn\u2019t passive. It required choices. It meant embracing who I was rather than letting others define me. It meant defying manipulation and control, even when doing so made me feel untethered and alone. It meant believing that my inner compass\u2014flawed and uncertain as it sometimes felt\u2014was strong enough to guide me through the chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And here\u2019s what I learned: Life doesn\u2019t just go on\u2014it shapes us as it does. It chisels away at the parts of us we don\u2019t need and reveals strengths we didn\u2019t know we had. Moving forward, I discovered that growth and healing are not destinations\u2014they\u2019re ongoing, just like life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So now, when I face the unexpected when loss or struggle threatens to anchor me in place, I return to Frost\u2019s words: It goes on.<\/em> It is not a dismissal of pain but a reminder of the inevitability of change\u2014and, with it, the possibility of renewal. Life will move forward, and so will I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Life, I\u2019ve come to understand, is both relentless and redemptive. Robert Frost once said, \u201cIn three words, I can sum up everything I\u2019ve learned about life: It goes on.\u201d Such a simple truth that feels obvious\u2014until you\u2019re in the thick of it, standing still while the world refuses to wait for you. I\u2019ve felt that pause\u2014the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,48,46,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critical-thinking","category-empowerment","category-growth","category-healing","category-hope-love","category-inspire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prolificpreambles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prolificpreambles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prolificpreambles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prolificpreambles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prolificpreambles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prolificpreambles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"http:\/\/prolificpreambles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prolificpreambles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prolificpreambles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prolificpreambles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prolificpreambles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}