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You’re Never Not On Your Path

Ariel Iman Rose
2 min readJul 28, 2020

What else is there to say? It’s all in the title.

We take our own power away when we think our path is bestowed to us by anyone other than ourselves.

Or when we compare someone else’s easy part of their path with our hard part.

You’ve heard it a million times, but the hard parts are there to teach us lessons.

Feeling like you’re “off your path” just means there’s a big lesson you’re learning.

I know how annoying that can sound when you’re in the middle of it. It can be confusing, you don’t know which way is up, you don’t know why you’re there in the first place, you don’t know how to move forward.

But you are moving forward. Even if it doesn’t feel like it. Every particle of your being is moving every second of your life. So which way do you want to direct it?

How we talk about ourselves to ourselves and others has an impact. If you’ve been talking about how stuck you feel. What might happen if you started thinking you’re finding your flow again? That you’re right where you’re suppose to be?

You’d be surprised at the insights you receive and the proverbial doors that open for you.

Still feeling stuck? There’s always something you actually want to be doing, your brain is just fighting with itself because you think you should be or should want to be doing something else.

Or maybe you need a bit of a reality check. Get out of the fantasy land in your head and sit yourself down and see exactly where you are, so you can figure out the next step in moving forward.

Maybe this hard part is teaching you a new way to grow up and take care of yourself better.

And if all else fails, and you don’t even know what “forward movement” means. Then just move. Do something you haven’t done in awhile. Do something you miss doing. Do something that gets you out of your head, or something that feels good. Something you’ve never done. The only wrong answer is to keep doing the same thing.

The point of the hard parts are to learn and grow, not be stuck and suffer. You can change your outlook in a moment, and watch how your life changes.

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