This moment is a collage of your past.

The steps that brought you here, of the things that shaped you,

it's a story comprised of what you choose to remember.

And so I ask which memories get your attention.

Or do you choose to shine that potentially life-changing spotlight?

What are you looking back on?

Do you remember those times you felt lost?

Those times life was turned upside down when you went into panic mode, when you were perfectly

mapped out reality was shaken at its foundation.

Yet you got up and found steady ground, didn't you?

Do you remember that?

Do you remember when the things you thought were forever turned out to be as fleeting as a setting sun?

When you realized a life well lived would mean figuring out the vast majority

of it on your own, relying on your courage and your strength. Yet you pushed into the dark

of night and lit a path, didn't you?

Do you remember that?

Do you remember the hard hits?

The blatant losses, the gut-punching defeats, when you looked in the mirror and thought,

this reflection, it's just not who it needs to be.

This burden is too much to carry. Yet you got yourself together.

You found faith in your reflection.

And you not only carried that burden, but you made something of it, didn't you?

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