On Moving.
When you move to a new city, you’ll feel excited. Endless possibilities await. You’re getting a chance to reinvent yourself. New city, new you. There are so many new things to try, people to meet, ways to succeed.
When you move to a new city, you’ll feel scared. What if you don’t make new friends? What if a city so big completely overwhelms you, swallowing you and chewing you up and spitting you out? What if you fail?
When you move to a new city, you’ll learn a lot about yourself. You’ll learn that you’re resourceful, and resilient, and intelligent, and capable. You’ll feel proud of the way you packed everything up and planted yourself down on fresh soil.
When you move to a new city, you’ll meet a lot of new people. You’ll make new friends, and you’ll be reminded that not everyone is for everyone. You’ll start to find your circle, a circle that matters. Sometimes, you’ll wonder why your circle isn’t growing as fast as you want it to. You’ll remind yourself not to compare. You’ll look at the people around you again, and you’ll smile.
When you move to a new city, you’ll miss your family, and your dog, and a few of your friends, but you won’t really miss your old city. You outgrew it. It didn’t serve you. No need to linger or dwell; you won’t be going back, at least not for long.
When you move to a new city, you’ll be so ready to leave your past behind. You’ll focus only on the new beginning at hand. You’ll erase the steps you took to get here and brush away the bits. No need to think of them anymore. You’re here now.
When you move to a new city, you’ll have full circle moments. You’ll realize that the parts of the past that you brushed off as incidental were, in fact, not. They were leading you here.
When you move to a new city, people from your past will come back. People who, in the long ago and in the not so long ago, you hoped and wished and crossedallyourfingers would fit into your life exactly how you wanted them to. And you’ll realize now, that they were the people who are in your life for a reason or a season, but probably not a lifetime. So you let them stay, in whatever capacity they want to stay, and that is enough.
When you move to a new city, people from your past will come back. People who you lost touch with long ago, and yet you pick up exactly where you left off. It’s as if they forgot their wallet inside and just had to dash back and “oops give me one sec, I gotta grab that one thing, I’ll be right back.” And they came right back. And you’ll realize that these are the lifetime people.
When you move to a new city, not everything will fall into place exactly how you want it to, or when you want it to. But life will start to feel more intentional. Slowly, everything will make more sense. You’ll fall in love. With life, with the city, with yourself. So move.
xo, Ellie