what is your why?
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what is your why?

๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘š ๐‘Ž ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’ & ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’? โฃ
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That question rung around my head for a while once. You see, we all have those things we crave in life, the things we feel the deepest compelling to do, the things we believe we were placed on this earth to accomplish. โฃ

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every tall tree first had toโ€ฆ
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every tall tree first had toโ€ฆ

๐–๐žโ€™๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ญ.

Lษชแด›แด›สŸแด‡ ส™ษชแด›s แด€ษดแด… แด˜ษชแด‡แด„แด‡s แด›สœแด€แด› สœแด€แด แด‡ ส™แด‡แด‡ษด แด€ษด ษชษดแด›แด‡ษขส€แด€สŸ แด˜แด€ส€แด› แดา“ แดกสœแด€แด› สœแดสŸแด…s แด›สœแด‡ ส€แดแดแด›s แดา“ แดกสœแด แดกแด‡ แด€ส€แด‡ ษชษด แด˜สŸแด€แด„แด‡.

What we have to remember is that the dirt can either 1.) nourish us or 2.) make us a muddy mess depending on how we approach it.

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I ran awayโ€ฆ
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I ran awayโ€ฆ

Iแด› แดกแด€s แด€ Tแดœแด‡sแด…แด€ส แด€า“แด›แด‡ส€ษดแดแดษด แด€ษดแด… แด›สœแด‡ แด›ษชส€แด‡แด…ษดแด‡ss แดกแด€s สœแด‡แด€แด˜แด‡แด… สœษชษขสœ แดแด แด‡ส€ แดแด‡. ๐’๐จ, ๐ˆ ๐ซ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ. Iโ€™แด ษดแดแด› แด‡แดส™แด€ส€ส€แด€ssแด‡แด… แดส€ แด‡แด แด‡ษด ส€แด‡แดแดแด›แด‡สŸส แด€sสœแด€แดแด‡แด….

Lษชา“แด‡ ษชs แด›แดแด sสœแดส€แด› แด›แด sแด˜แด‡ษดแด… สแดแดœส€ แด…แด€ส แด€แด› แดกแด€ส€ แดกษชแด›สœ สแดแดœส€ สŸษชา“แด‡-แดแด€แด‹แด‡ แด˜แด‡แด€แด„แด‡.

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just look up
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just look up

๐ผ๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Ž ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘“๐‘ก & ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘™ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐ท๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘›โ€™๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ ๐ธ๐‘…. While walking her & her father back to her room, she paused at the artwork on the wall. The automatic doors ๐’๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’†๐’… & ๐’„๐’๐’๐’”๐’†๐’… ๐’‚ า“แด‡แดก ๐’•๐’Š๐’Ž๐’†๐’” while we waited as she smiled intently at the art. Without skipping a beat, her father lightheartedly chuckled that สœแด‡โ€™แด… สŸแด‡แด€ส€ษดแด‡แด… แด›แด แด‡ษดแดŠแดส สœษชs sแดœส€ส€แดแดœษดแด…ษชษดษขs แดแดส€แด‡ ส™แด‡แด„แด€แดœsแด‡ สœษชs แด…แด€แดœษขสœแด›แด‡ส€ sแด›แดแด˜แด˜แด‡แด… & แด‡ษดแดŠแดสแด‡แด… สŸษชา“แด‡ along the way instead of rushing from place to place.

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just five minutes
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just five minutes

๐ˆ had ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ could ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐š ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž.

The year was 2012 and Ann Voskamp said I needed to walk five minutes of fresh oxygen into my cells each day(full disclosure: it was her blog post that told me-those daily blog posts coming to my phone were a lifeline). Iโ€™d been breathing through a cracked open window for two weeks in tiny snippets by that point and the idea of fresh air felt like a heap of timid amazing.

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no, this is important, this matters
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no, this is important, this matters

๐‘ฐ ๐’Ž๐’†๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’๐’‚๐’…๐’š ๐’‚๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’Œ. She walked up seemingly from out of nowhere and struck up conversation like we were long lost bffs. Before I knew it, her son had invited us to his birthday party at the park picnic shelter and his mama insisted we come, but no gifts necessary, she just wanted her boy to have friends at his party.

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