When a significant and painful event happened to me at a church we were attending several years ago, something inside me snapped. I felt an unhinging, a disconnection from the church I was attending.
I think back to significant times in my life. Many of them rotated on a single event. An event that changed my perspective forever.
It seems to me that growth isn't steady and prolonged. I may have understood that something needed to change, but I didn't see a need to upset the apple cart, until the ONE event. The change energy stood frozen, waiting for a signal that movement was imperative.
When the event happens, the way the world looks shifts in a new direction. And once that perception has been changed, you can no longer go back, because the world as you knew it no longer makes sense.
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I never thought of it that way. Where growth isn't constant. I've always seen it as something that's continually happening. But what you said here makes more sense. I guess that explains why I feel stagnant sometimes...and then I feel overwhelmed because everthing seems to be moving too quickly. And it's true...that one event can dramatically push you forward and change your view on everything. There are so many things I look back on and wonder how I ever thought about them that way. How could I have been so naive? And now I wonder how I can be so jaded. It's a double edged sword...this growing thing...sometimes I wish I was still a bit naive when it came to certain things. Maybe then I wouldn't be so scared about turning the corners I know I should.
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