This is how you know you’re one of the lucky ones.
If you have been marked by life then you have left your mark too.
If you have something to lose, consider yourself one of the lucky ones. If you have chosen to care even after all you’ve been through — the betrayals, the heartbreaks, the things you wished you would never have to go through but then you did — trust me, you are one of the brave ones.
And if you have determined to try, even though you might not make it and even when you’re not quite good enough, then you are one of the rare ones. You are one of those few and far between souls who choose failure over comfort because only one leads to growth.
Only one gives you the satisfaction of knowing you played the game, not the one of winners or losers but the one of both. You chose both — love and loss over never having loved at all, fear and courage over hardened indifference, and dreams and disappointments over the flatness of experiencing neither.
You chose cresting highs and crashing lows over complacent waters because you would rather waver than never be moved at all. And still, you made space for calm, for relaxation, for rest because that’s part of it too. Life and living well; being changed and yet staying the same, growing but always circling back to your roots.
